The Lagos State Independent
Electoral Commission (LASIEC) has explained why it has not announced the final
results for Saturday’s local government elections held in the state.
According to the LASIEC Chairman,
Justice Ayotunde Phillips (rtd), the state electoral commission was yet to
conclude the collation of results because the elections materials from one
local government had not reached LASIEC headquarters due to poor weather
conditions.
She, however, noted that the
commission did its best in conducting a free and fair election and would learn
from its mistakes going forward.
The LASIEC boss disclosed this on
Channels Television ‘News At 10’ during an interview on Sunday night.
Justice Philips said: “We are
just waiting for the result from one local government.
“You can never be 100% satisfied,
I’ve heard complaints. The weather was not really in our favour and we had a
bit of problem getting some of the materials to some of the areas and back but
I think we did our best.
“There is still room for improvement and we
are going to learn from our mistakes and we’ll improve as we go along.”
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Police
Command said it has arrested about 110 suspects for various offences during the
local government election which held on Saturday.
The Commissioner of Police, Fatai
Owoseni, said: “As of the time I left the office (on Saturday evening), we
should be having about 110 suspects that have been arrested for one thing or
the other. There may still be more because we’ve not finished the whole process
but as of now, we have close to about 110 suspects in custody.”
Owoseni who said he also
monitored the process in some areas of the state noted that the police
responded promptly to the incidence of violence in some parts of the state.
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