Peter Obi to INEC: You Are Cloning Electoral Fraudsters as Leaders

A leader-cloning scandal involving the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been reported.

Peter Obi, a member of the Labour Party (LP), who is running for president in 2023, made the accusation.

As a result, he claimed, the electoral umpire is squandering the nation’s time and money.

In their final address, dated July 23, which was submitted to the Presidential Election Petitions Court, Obi made this statement.

As a result, Obi and LP issued a warning that if the court does not pressure INEC into performing its electoral obligations decently, impartially, and independently, elections in Nigeria will continue to be a fraud.

Additionally, he charged that INEC proudly donned a candidate’s toga during the election it administered, neglecting its core legal duty as an electoral arbiter.

“In the case of PDP v. Alechenu (2019) LPELR-49199 (CA), this honourable court reprimanded the 1st Respondent (INEC), who appears to have misunderstood its public duty, as follows: “Often one finds cases where INEC plays games with election materials and would not grant the petitioner(s) access to documents used in the conduct of the election, even with court order(s) to produce same, as in this case, thus According to Obi and LP.

Further, Obi charged that on election day, INEC had neither uploaded or transmitted the election results from the polling place to the IReV in real-time.

He remarked:

“By doing so, INEC represented and guaranteed that it would employ the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for both the real-time upload/transmission of election results to the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) on election day and the accreditation of voters in the polling units.

“However, contrary to the need of the law and in clear violation of its own assurances, the 1st respondent (INEC) abandoned and discarded the much-anticipated upload/transmission of the election result in real-time on the day of the election from the polling unit to the IReV.

The first reply to the IReV posted some quite odd papers and photographs that claimed to be the results of the elections in various polling places but were actually blurry, unreadable, and inaccessible.

These hazy pictures and unreachable papers were supposed to be the outcome of the voting units.

Because the election could not be confirmed or checked, it lacked credibility and transparency as a result of the blurred photographs being uploaded to the IReV.