The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, has raised the alarm that some officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Lagos, Rivers and Delta states have refused to upload the results of the presidential elections collated in various polling units in the states unto INEC’s Central Server.
According to Julius Abure, the officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in connivance with security agencies are claiming that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System had suddenly stopped working, hence their failure to upload the results.
The party in a statement said most of the polling units affected were areas where the LP candidate, Peter Obi, had recorded wins.
The chairman listed places like Agege, Kosofe, Oshodi-Isolo, Surulere, and Ibeju Lekki, in Lagos where results showed that Labour Party won convincingly and INEC officials had failed to upload results.
According to him, “Information reaching me has it that in Lagos, they have refused to upload the results for the presidential election, they have uploaded that of the Senate and House of Representatives but for the presidential, they have refused. And they are using the police to drive our agents and supporters out of the place. And they said that they have firm instruction from INEC headquarters not to upload.
“For example, in Kosofe, they put the collation centre in a Local Government Area Headquarters. The place is surrounded by APC and people are afraid for their life. They are not uploading, they said that they have been giving instruction to insist that the BVAS is faulty. And most of the places we won, but they have refused to upload.
“As I speak, APC officials are in Yaba office of INEC negotiating with the officials. What I have said now is happening in Agege, Kosofe, Oshodi-Isolo, Surulere, we have this situation all over. In Ibeju Lekki, our local government chairman who attempted to stop them was arrested by the police.”
Abure said that similar situation is playing out across the collation centres in Delta state and some part of Rivers State.
