The Director General of the Presidential Campaign Council(PCC) of the Labour Party (LP) Balogun Akin Osuntokun has demanded that the Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) suspend further announcement of results and follow its own guidelines
He also called for outright cancelation of the entire election to make immediate plans for another election with strict compliance with the stipulated laws and guidelines.
Speaking in Abuja on Monday, Osuntokun indicated that the INEC guidelines on the conduct of the elections were extensively breached adding that the electoral umpire has evidently been very reluctant to make the necessary adjustment to remedy the situation.
“The internet and social media is awash with videos and photographic evidences of the pervasive violence and attacks that were visited on Nigerians with some attacks still on-going across the country as we speak.
“The evidence of collusion between INEC and the security forces to subvert the will of the people are too numerous to be detailed here.
“Contrary to the publicly advertised guidelines for the conduct of the elections, we are convinced that the processes leading to the results have been severely compromised. “Consequently, we regret to state that we have lost confidence in the results being collated and being announced.
“Nigerians have inundated us with calls and protests over INEC’s non-compliance with provisions of the electoral guidelines and the obvious manipulations of the election results.He reminded President Muhammadu Buhari of his promise Nigerians to deliver a free and fair election with the passage of the new Electoral Act which he repeated this promise multiple times.”The INEC Chairman also came before Nigerians and the Global community to promise free and fair elections and severally reiterated its readiness to conduct the elections.”What has become glaring is that none of these promises have been kept. All the promises made about deploying a fail-safe system anchored on BVAS werebroken.
“We ask the international community to walk their
talk in Nigeria, and cease to condone the multiple evils
being perpetrated in our country by the rulers of Nigeria. There cannot be one standard for Nigeria, and another for the rest of the world.
He however, thanked Nigerians for their support for the LP candidates, as he assured that all their mandate shall not be surrendered to a desperate gaggle of failed rulers, who have brought nothing but ruination on the country.
“We urge that Nigerians remain peaceful and law abiding, whilst assured that we are doing
everything within the law to protect your sacred
mandate.”