2023: Abuja Women Threaten To Go Naked Over Election Result

Angry Nigerian Women on Tuesday stormed the road leading to the national collation centre of the presidential election results over alleged irregularities, threatening to go naked.

The women numbering about 200 marched to the ICC to protest what they described as  ‘rigged’ results but were stopped by heavy security officers at the junction connecting the Central Bank of Nigeria, National Defence College and the ICC.

They threatened to go naked if the Independent National Electoral Commission did not accede to their demands on why the presidential election polling units' results had not been transmitted electronically to the INEC result viewing portal.

The angry women carried placards with various inscriptions including, "INEC stop rigging", "future of our children at stake", "Mahmood give us our results", "we are tired of injustice", and "occupy INEC now".

Leader of the protesters, Oby said, "we will not compromise a new Nigeria because we know it is possible not only for the elites.

"Not only for senators. Not only for the legislators. A new Nigeria for the masses. That’s all we are demanding for.

“This is a group of angry Nigerian women who have come to take our nation by force. We have come to take it by force. We need them to answer us. Our anger is the result.

"We demand an IReV result. Electronically transmitted results, the ones Mahmood Yakubu promised us that mothers trooped out to cast their votes.

“He said from the polling units to wards to area councils to the states. So, that’s what we demand.

"What we are getting is not what he promised and we are not ready to compromise this election. We will not take rigging for an answer. We need original results.

“We need results from the polling units. That is the only thing that will take us away from the road. The same way we go naked into the labour room and gave birth to Mahmood Yakubu, the same way all these women you are looking at here will go naked on this road.

"It will happen today if they do not come and answer us.”

No INEC official was on the ground to address the protesting women.

But a plain cloth security officer told them to leave the road and assured them that he would relay their message to the appropriate quarters for them to be addressed.