Veteran Nollywood actress, Kate Henshaw, has joined Nigerians in rejecting election results of certain areas, noting that the poll did not hold in certain areas of Southeast due to sit-at-home order yet results were uploaded.
She pointed out that the uploaded election results of Awo-Omamma and Oru East LGA, Imo State is far from the truth.
In her words: “Yes, elections did not hold in Awo-Omamma, Oru East LGA, Imo State, but election results were uploaded. Observers from @Connected_dev and CJIDAfrica confirmed no election was conducted in that area due to a sit-at-home order yet results were uploaded.”
Let’s verify polling unit results manually at collation centre– Aisha Yesufu
Also, popular Nigerian activist and social critic, Aisha Yesufu, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to display the results, polling unit by polling unit. This is what was to be displayed by IReV.
She said: “INEC should display the results, polling unit by polling unit. This is what was to be displayed by IReV. Do not give us a lumped results. Citizens were supposed to verify their polling unit results via IReV. So let’s do it manually at the collation centre.”
According to Kingsley Moghalu OON, he is saddened that INEC, despite all assurances they gave Nigerians, has disappointed again, “Tactical disenfranchisement”.
“Police colluding with thugs. Delayed uploading of results to BVAS. Whether it’s just operational incapacity, human factor, or more, the result is the same,” he added.
How INEC officials, in connivance with the security agencies, rig presidential election in Lagos– Labour Party
Meanwhile, Labour Party (LP) has accused INEC officials of refusing to upload the presidential election results In Lagos, Delta.
National Chairman of LP, Barrister Julius Abure, expressed concern about the impunity of the party’s officials in Lagos State, where the results of the presidential elections that have been collated in the state’s various polling units are not being uploaded to the Central Server.
According to him, the officials of INEC, in connivance with the security agencies, are claiming that the BVAS has suddenly developed a fault and therefore cannot function.
The chairman said that information from the party’s field men has it that in places like Agege, Kosofe, Oshodi-Isolo, Surulere, and Ibeju Lekki, amongst others where results show that Labour Party won convincingly, the INEC officials claim that the BVAS suddenly developed a fault when it concerns uploading results of the presidential election.
According to him, “Information reaching me has it that in Lagos, they have refused to upload the results for the presidential election, they have uploaded that of the Senate and House of Representatives but for the presidential, they have refused. And they are using the police to drive our agents and supporters out of the place. And they said that they have firm instructions from INEC headquarters not to upload.
“For example, in Kosofe, they put the collation centre in a Local Government Area Headquarters. The place is surrounded by APC and people are afraid for their life. They are not uploading; they said that they have been instructed to insist that the BVAS is faulty. And most of the places we won, but they have refused to upload.
“As I speak, APC officials are in the Yaba office of INEC negotiating with the officials. What I have said now is happening in Agege, Kosofe, Oshodi-Isolo, and Surulere, we have this situation all over. In Ibeju Lekki, our local government chairman who attempted to stop them was arrested by the police.”
According to Abure, the situation is the same at all of Delta state’s collation centres.
However, he urged INEC to make sure that only legitimate results that can be independently verified from the various polling places should be uploaded.
He also urged the police to assist this democracy in functioning and to resist politicians’ efforts to undermine its accomplishments by refusing to be used to obstruct Nigerians’ right to choose their leaders.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that a video on Twitter shows an INEC official who refused to upload election result from a polling unit in Ilupeju area of Lagos state.
It was gathered that the INEC official first insisted on not uploading before saying she wants to do the upload at a police station. She went on to reveal that her boss asked her not to upload the result to INEC portal.
Watch the video below
https://twitter.com/i/status/1629835100765470720
