The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 General Elections, Mr. Peter Gregory Obi has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of attempting to ‘deceive’ Nigerians with its recent report on the conduct of the Electoral Exercise.
POLITICS NIGERIA recalls that INEC recently released a comprehensive 526-page report on the 2023 elections, addressing various aspects of the electoral process, including the delay in promptly uploading presidential results.
Despite the successful operation of the bimodal voter accreditation system (BVAS), which facilitated smooth proceedings during the elections, the electoral body clarified that technical challenges led to the delay in transmitting Presidential results.
The electoral body emphasized that these issues were swiftly resolved and did not compromise the integrity of the elections.
However, Obi, in a statement through his spokesman, Dr. Yunusa Tanko, described the report as ‘Medicine after death’.
“I think the INEC report is medicine after death. The truth about it is that if I didn’t mean that INEC actually deal with this issue as it happened during the election, possibly Nigerians will have believed and trusted this particular report.”
“But here we are, the report of the INEC which signifies that the IREV refused to function or been uploaded during the election is false. Considering the fact that there were three elections that happened on that day, the Federal House of Representatives, the Senate, and the result was uploaded and there was no issue.”
“Why must there be issue as regard to the presidential election? So totally for us is deceit, disdain for the people and is trying to promote an indecency.”, he said.
