Laolu Akande, who is the media aide to the former Vice
President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo, has said that the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) failing to electronically transmit the results of
the 2023 presidential and National Assembly elections has broken the trust of
Nigerians.
Akande stated this while answering questions on Channels
Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme on Friday.
According to Akande, INEC failed to fulfill its promise to
upload polling unit results on their Result Viewing Portal.
“It is important to establish something we cannot basically
run away from. INEC came out of this election as a damaged goods.
“There is no doubt about that. INEC itself set up a
standard. INEC determined the guidelines. INEC committed to the people of
Nigeria that this is how we are going to declare the result of this election.
“In fact, the Chairman of INEC went abroad and said, ‘What
we are going to do is that these results, when we get it, we will put it on
IReV in real-time’,” Akande said.
Akande’s comments came after the Presidential Election
Petitions Tribunal (PEPT) upheld the election of President Bola Tinubu.
The Justice Haruna Tsammani-led panel ruled that the sole
technological requirement mandated for use by the INEC during elections is the
Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS).
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