2023: US Has Promised Atiku To Sanctions Election Riggers – Omokri

A former Presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has said the United State Government has promised to sanction election riggers in the 2023 general elections.

Speaking on Thursday during an interview with Channels Television, Omokri said the US government made the promise to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.

Naija News reports that the former Vice President had on October 27 travelled to the US for some high-level engagements regarding his presidential campaign.

According to Omokri, Atiku, during the meetings, has secured the commitment of the US government to ensure free and fair elections in Nigeria in 2023.

He added that the US government has agreed to give every support to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies to help them be ready for the elections.

Omokri said: “We didn’t go there for guidance at all. However, we did have an agenda and one of the agendas was that we should have free and fair elections, because you know that if you look at the history and the best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour, elections in Nigeria, sometimes, have not been up to par.

“Sometimes, we have challenges as we saw with the 2019 elections. One of the desires that we had was for the United States to ensure and give every support to INEC and security services to help them be ready for the elections; to also make a commitment right now that they will take action against anybody promoting violence or anything that could affect free and fair elections, and they did make that commitment.

“Like I told you, the commitments where they said President Biden was going to use peer pressure with President Muhammadu Buhari. It didn’t just come like that; it was after they finished briefing us.

“They said they are going to have political peer pressure from President Biden directly to President Muhammadu Buhari, and also, we are going to have a third audit of the election results. So, those were the commitments that we secured.”