Politics

LP chair raises alarm over INEC officials’ refusal to upload election results in Lagos, Delta

The National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, has raised the alarm on the failure of the officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to upload the results of the presidential and National Assembly elections collated in various polling units in Lagos State to the Server.

Abure alleged that the INEC officials, in connivance with the security agencies, claimed that the BVAS developed fault and cannot function.

The LP chairman, in a statement issued on Saturday, said the INEC officials failed to upload results in places like Agege, Kosofe, Oshodi-Isolo, Surulere, and Ibeju Lekki, amongst others “where results show that Labour Party won convincingly”.

He said: “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 instruction from INEC headquarters not to upload.

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“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 of their life. They are not uploading, they said that they have been giving instruction 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 Yaba office of INEC negotiating with the officials. What I have said now is happening in Agege, Kosofe, Oshodi-Isolo, Surulere, we have this situation all over. In Ibeju Lekki, our local government chairman who attempted to stop them was arrested by the police.”

Abure further stated that similar situation is playing out across the collation centres in Delta State.

He however called on INEC to ensure that “only genuine and verifiable results” generated from the various polling units are uploaded.

The LP chairman also called on the police to “help this democracy to work and should resist the lure by the politicians to mar the gains of democracy by refusing to be used to deny Nigerians their choice of leaders.”

The Star

Segun Ojo

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