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INEC Finally Reacts to Labour Party’s Request on Use of BVAS, Reveals Position
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that political parties cannot serve as a watchdog to the nation’s electoral umpire’s activities.
The INEC national commissioner and chairman of information and voter education committee, Festus Okoye, who said this on Sunday night, March 12, explained that the commission had been created to serve as a regulator for political parties but the reverse seems to be the case.
Okoye insisted that the request by the Labour Party (LP) to monitor the commission’s process of reconfiguring and backing up results on its Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines (BVAS) would not be granted, a report by The Punch confirmed, on Monday, March 13.
“On the issue of a political party saying they want to come and look at our cloud, IReV or into the brain of the BIVAS, the commission will not allow that to happen,” he noted.
Meanwhile, the trending claim that the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, won 19 states in the February 25 poll has been considered misleading, according to Dubawa, a Nigerian fact-checking organisation.
Obi, a former governor of Anambra state, came third in the presidential poll with over six million votes.
He got the highest votes in 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), but they were not enough to make him win as he lost to the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Tinubu, who polled over eight million votes.
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