Laolu Akande, former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s aide believes the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) inability to electronically transmit results of the presidential and National Assembly polls has broken Nigerians’ trust in the agency.


While INEC had in the lead up to the February 2023 exercise repeatedly said it would transmit polling unit results to the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV), that did not happen during the presidential and National Assembly elections.

Despite criticisms from Nigerians, the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT) ruled that the electoral umpire is at liberty to determine how to transmit election results.

In the wake of the development, Akande said INEC’s inability to e-transmit results has reduced the commission’s trust level among Nigerians.


It is important to establish something we cannot basically run away from. INEC came out of this election as a damaged good. There is no doubt about that. INEC itself set up a standard. INEC determined the guidelines. INEC committed to the people of Nigeria that this is how we are going to declare the result of this 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 IReV in real-time’,” he said on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday.

According to him, the comment heightened people’s trust in the electoral umpire.

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

The development, he argued, not only affects INEC’s integrity, it raises legitimacy questions for those who won the elections


“It is a problem for political legitimacy for people who came out of that system,” the former VP aide said.

“So, there is a lot of cynicism, there is a lot of distrust [about those declared winners]. INEC is for that,” he noted

searchng4love:
Gone insane since the principal lost woefully.

searchng4love:
Gone insane since the principal lost woefully.

Akande should shave his horrible beards...

killsmith:
Observe how the paid slaves avoided this thread because laolu is not igbo.

franchasofficia:
Tinubu came a distant 3rd, INEC needed to swap him with Obi, and in order to avoid being caught, they blocked result upload.

That is why Tinubu and his Agbado supporters hate Peter Obi more than Atiku they claimed came second. If not tell me the rational or reason why someone that came 1st will be more worried about the person that came distant 3rd more than he is worried about the person that came 2nd if not guilty conscience? What did Obi do to Tinubu or his evil supporters that they hated him so much more than Atiku that is closer to their candidate's position? Atiku took Tinubu to US court for certificate forgery, never for one day did Tinubu and his gang of evil supporters criticized or attacked Atiku, instead they left Atiku and be attacking Obi that didn't take Tinubu to a US court, God is watching all of you, God is not sleeping.

Tinubu knows he is sitting on Peter Obi's mandate, but let him not worry, he won't enjoy it in peace, nature will definitely fight back, so Tinubu while you are gallivanting about as the President, be getting prepared for nature's payback.Watch INEC's official video rubbishing PEPT Judges and their yeye Judgment below.

searchng4love:
Gone insane since the principal lost woefully.

Akande should shave his horrible beards...

asanausana91:
see fool, someone better than your father is telling you the truth and you are here opening your dirty mouth to talk rubbish. INEC will never get the trust they got in the last election.

asanausana91:
see fool, someone better than your father is telling you the truth and you are here opening your dirty mouth to talk rubbish. INEC will never get the trust they got in the last election.

CilicMarin:
This one is still pained because Osinbajo lost woefully in the primaries..

Useless wailer!

AntiTerrorist:
It's sad sharing a country with folks like you.

helinues:
He should go to court.