ELECTION RIGGING: GROUP CALLS FOR VISA BAN, TRAVEL RESTRICTION FOR INEC OFFICIALS,

Group demands travel restrictions and a ban on visas for government and INEC officials over alleged election rigging

Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC chairman, and 43 other people, including senior staff members and national commissioners, were among the INEC officials named on the group's list of those allegedly involved in the rigging of Nigeria's presidential election.

According to the group's news release, the countries listed were asked to, "slam visa ban and other inter- country entry restrictions and block international engagements and recognitions in their names particularly those involving the National Chairman of INEC (Prof Mahmood Yakubu."

"The vicariously or directly culpable four governors petitioned against for their conspiratorial roles in the brutal voter suppression, and INEC in-house presidential poll rigging are Governors Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Nasiru El-Rufai of Kaduna State, Hope Uzodinma of Imo State and Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State.

"We sought that they be slammed with visa ban and inter-country entry restrictions involving themselves and members of their nuclear families, for their vicarious or direct involvement in gross human rights abuses and violations under their gubernatorial watch."