The campaign council of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has reacted to the actions taken against the Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Hudu Yunusa-Ari, noting that the REC is still better than the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu.
A spokesperson of the Labour Party Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign, Kenneth Okonkwo, said that while the Adamawa REC did not promise anyone anything or waste anybody’s time or money, the INEC Chairman promised that BVAS and electronically uploaded and transmitted results were mandatory for 2023 elections but failed to fulfill his promises.
Okonkwo said this while reacting to Yunusa’s declaration of the Adamawa State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Aisha Dahiru Binani, winner of the governorship poll while collation was yet to be concluded on Sunday.
According to Okonkwo, the INEC chairman wasted Nigerians’ time and money amounting to about N400 billion and still declared his preferred candidate at the dead of the night without genuine results, unverified and unconfirmed by BVAS.
He said, “Yunusa is better than Yakubu. The Adamawa State REC didn’t promise anyone anything. He did not waste anybody’s time or money, not even an office paper. He came in broad daylight with a handwritten paper and unpretentiously declared a winner without results and is man enough to face the consequences of his criminal action.
“He simply went straight and performed the action for which he was paid for. Yakubu made promises that BVAS and electronically uploaded and transmitted results were mandatory for 2023 elections.
“He failed. He wasted our time and about N400billion and still declared his preferred candidate at the dead of the night without genuine results, unverified and unconfirmed by BVAS, that he could not produce on demand, even with a court order, until BVAS was reconfigured, only to present at the Election.
“Tribunal that BVAS and electronically transmitted results are no longer mandatory. Both of them committed the same offence and deserve the same punishment, with Yakubu’s punishment being more. What do you think?”
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