INEC Broke Nigerians’ Trust With Failure To E-Transmit Results – Laolu Akande

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) failed to electronically transfer the results of the most recent general elections, according to Laolu Akande, a former spokeswoman for ex-Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. This failure has’shattered’ Nigerians’ trust in the organization.

Speaking on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Friday, Akande said that the commission has failed to publish election results to the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IREV) despite promises to do so.

He said: “It’s critical to establish something we can’t really avoid. This election left INEC with a shattered reputation.

. There is no doubt about that. INEC itself set up a standard, determined the guidelines. INEC committed to the people of Nigeria that this is how we are going to declare the result of the election.

“In fact, the Chairman of INEC went abroad and said, ‘What we are going to do is that this results, when we get it, we would put it on our IReV in real-time’.”

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Akande further stated that, while INEC has not broken the law in accordance with the judgment delivered by the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, Nigerians now have distrust in the body.

He said, “Now guess what? When it was time for INEC to fulfill its own guidelines—for certain reasons, we could talk about that—INEC failed to do what it said it would do. Now it is right if you look at the law, and I think the judges have also affirmed that INEC has not really broken the law. But INEC has broken the trust of the Nigerian people.

“it’s a problem for political legitimacy for people that came out of that system.”

Recall Vanguard reported that the five-member panel, headed by Justice Haruna Tsammani, on Wednesday ruled that the Electoral Act 2022 does not contain a mandatory provision for the electronic transmission of election results.

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