Unknown to the electorate in Nigeria, some contestants in the last April general elections, including a presidential aspirant and two governorship aspirants planned to scuttle the elections by creating crisis within the Independent National Electoral Commission with an offer of a N1 billion inducement to top officials.
Fresh facts on what went wrong during the April elections revealed that the two governorship aspirants from the South east had worked in league with an ally among the arrays of the presidential aspirants, and had contributed the whooping sum meant to induce the INEC officials for the purpose of preventing the elections from holding.
One of the Resident Electoral Commissioners at the National Headquarters of INEC, according to investigations, was recruited as a mole by the aspirants said to have been desperate in ensuring that the April elections did not hold.
The gameplan by the aspirants, according to findings, was to polarise the ranks of INEC down the line and make the Commission ungovernable against all preparations for the elections.
The recruited INEC Commissioner, it was learnt, was to supply sensitive information to the aspirants and also to turn key officials against the INEC management purposely to frustrate all plans for the conduct of the elections.
The INEC chairman, Professor Maurice Iwu, during the peak of preparations for the April elections had alluded to the crisis within the Commission, as he said repeatedly that he was aware of the extraneous influence that was battling with the Commission.
The essence of the plot by the aspirants to scuttle the April election, according to sources, was to ensure the ouster of former President Olusegun Obasanjo from office.