INEC chairman, Professor Yakubu meets head of legal team of Labour Party
INEC assures LP it will provide election documents
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on March 13, 2023, assured the Labour Party’s Legal Team that the Commission will provide all the documents it requested for to prosecute its case.
He said: “INEC has nothing to hide. Documents available at the HQ will be given immediately. We are meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners today and we will discuss how other documents at the state level could also be made available to you speedily.
The Labour Party’s Legal Team was at the INEC HQ to discuss modalities for obtaining the documents.
Meanwhile, the INEC has described apologising to Nigerians over the widespread hiccups that characterised the February 25 elections as a non-issue.
INEC said politicians and political parties also should be blamed for its subpar performance.
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Labour Party, LP, have accused the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, of violence, voter intimidation and electoral fraud.
The APC also made its allegations of rigging against the PDP and Labour Party.
INEC said it was unhappy over its failure to upload the presidential election results in its server in real-time while blaming political parties and politicians for the outcome.
Asked if the commission would apologise to Nigerians for failing to upload the election results, Festus Okoye, spokesman for INEC, said, “The issue of apology or no apology does not arise. We have made it very clear that we are not happy with what happened with result upload on February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections.”
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