A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Osita
Chidoka has slammed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over
its conduct of the last presidential election.
Chidoka faulted INEC’s inability to electronically transmit
election results in real-time.
He stated this while featuring on Channels Television’s
Sunday Politics.
“INEC is a monumental disgrace. INEC is an organisation I am ashamed to be associated with as a Nigerian.
“I came on this programme and called for third-party
verification of the INEC system so that we are sure that on election day what
is going to happen that day would not lead to a glitch. On election day, INEC
said there was a glitch.
“Despite not testing the system, it is a shame that INEC
went to court to argue that not complying with its regulation does not make it
a ground to cancel an election,” Chidoka said.
He added that INEC’s struggle with such an issue paints the
nation badly in the comity of nations, wondering why it could not emulate
countries like India and Indonesia, which according to him, have large
populations but conduct better elections.
Recall that the PDP and Labour Party, LP, had
challenged the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress,
APC, as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.
They asked the court to nullify Tinubu’s victory on the
basis that INEC did not carry out a real-time transmission of results to the
election portal.
However, the court has since ruled that INEC is at liberty
to transmit results in whichever way it wants.
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