The Independent National Electoral Commission has apologized to the Nigerian Air Force for wrongfully accusing it of using its personnel to invade its premises in Rivers State and disrupt the collation of results in the protracted governorship and House of Assembly polls.

It will be recalled that the Spokesman for the INEC in Rivers State had accused the NAF and other security agencies of invading its collation centre and disrupting the exercise thereby forcing it to discontinue the declaration of results, a development that is currently generating tension across the country and beyond.

But apparently realizing its mistake, INEC said on Tuesday that it had discovered that none of the NAF personnel was involved in the chaos that was recorded in the premises at the weekend leading to the suspension of poll results collation and announcement.

In the statement absolving NAF entitled: “Inadvertent Involvement of the Nigerian Air Force in the Disruption of the March 9 2019 Collation Process”, INEC said it also discovered that the men in military uniforms were neither not from the NAF.


The statement which was made available to Vanguard on Tuesday was signed by the Head of Voter Education in Rivers State, Mr. Edwin Enabor for the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Obo Effanga.

The statement said: “Further to our investigation and clarification from the NAF Command in Rivers State on the invasion of our offices/disruption of collation process by armed men in military uniforms, the commission wishes to state that the persons purported to have worn the Air Force uniforms were neither personnel of the service nor authorized by the service to be at INEC office.

“The commission therefore wishes to express its regret at the embarrassment this might have caused the NAF,” INEC said.

The apology by INEC notwithstanding, its earlier claim at the weekend that military personnel took over its premises and hijacked the collation of results, has gone viral and attracted global attention, forcing some countries to issue threats against Nigeria.

NaijaRoyalty:
Mr Inconclusive himself .

The worst INEC chairman since 1999

EastGold:



I stand to be corrected, Prof. Maurice Iwu is the worst in the Nigerian history

EastGold:



I stand to be corrected, Prof. Maurice Iwu is the worst in the Nigerian history

NaijaRoyalty:


You're a political novice

My last reply to you

beamtopola:

You re bias, with professor murice, apga were controlling the south East and AD controlling the southwest

EastGold:



I stand to be corrected, Prof. Maurice Iwu is the worst in the Nigerian history

EastGold:



Before you display your naivety, please present to me the result of the 2007 presidential election classified by states or just show me a link to it.


I talk to you as an insider.


I am not holding brief for Prof. Yakubu, but we shouldn't forget that we once had a chairman who only came on air to announce general scores without telling us the result collated per state for each of the parties

EastGold:



You are wrong.
Peter Obi was the only APGA Governor from South East and he fought tooth and nail before reclaiming his mandate.

One out of five SE states.


In the south west, only Tinubu survived that is one out of six.



And lastly, please present to me the result of the 2003, 2007 presidential elections by state

asobo:
Let me correct you YOU JUST LIED.

EastGold:



Before you display your naivety, please present to me the result of the 2007 presidential election classified by states or just show me a link to it.


I talk to you as an insider.


I am not holding brief for Prof. Yakubu, but we shouldn't forget that we once had a chairman who only came on air to announce general scores without telling us the result collated per state for each of the parties

donphiilopus:


I bet the guy you quoted wouldn't reply this. I'm surprised they're calling Yakubu the worst Chairman when under him, PDP is about winning fourteen States and APC also winning fourteen States with AAC claiming one. During their time in govt, there was nothing like inconclusive election simply because they always rigged the election such that there wouldn't be any need to have inconclusive polls. Under this man, at least we now see margin of defeat being around 100 to 5000 which wasn't obtainable during the time of Iwu.

asobo:
As an insider you claim to be let me inform you that Professor Mahmoud is the worst INEC chairman and I doubt if anyone can beat his record. Someone who went ahead to declare election result with polls not holding in an entire local government Dekina in Kogi state et al; Tudun wada and Kabong ward et al and numerous I can't mention. History won't be kind to Mahmoud

EastGold:



We need to educate these kids.

2003, 2007 were the era of do or die politics.

Once you get the ticket of PDP, you can go to bed.


I remember we voted for Mimiko in Ondo, while we were still collating the result in Akure, Prof. Maurice Iwu announced it in Abuja.
Same applies to edo, OSUN, Ekiti.


I am not APC, neither am I for PDP but I hate hypocrisy

donphiilopus:


You're so right bro. I can remember how Hon. Tunde Akogun, the man who later became the House leader won in 2007 when Presidential and National Assembly elections were still being held different days. His boy (man) came to the polling unit and told whoever cared to listen that elections had already been concluded in Abj and that Akogun had already won. He told us not to bother ourselves waiting for materials. Materials later arrived around 5pm and before 6:15pm, those PDP guys in my area were already looking for a way to snatch the ballot boxes and papers. It took the intervention of the fearless AC guys who stood their ground. Last last, they took the ballot boxes away (to INEC office to avoid snatching) before 6:30pm when just few people had voted. The next day we heard Akogun had been announced as the winner of the polls. This scenario alone makes me hate PDP so much. Yet some people are here telling us Yakubu is worse than Iwu.

donphiilopus:


@bold, I promise to deactivate my account if any of them can do that.

donphiilopus:


You're so right bro. I can remember how Hon. Tunde Akogun, the man who later became the House leader won in 2007 when Presidential and National Assembly elections were still being held different days. His boy (man) came to the polling unit and told whoever cared to listen that elections had already been concluded in Abj and that Akogun had already won. He told us not to bother ourselves waiting for materials. Materials later arrived around 5pm and before 6:15pm, those PDP guys in my area were already looking for a way to snatch the ballot boxes and papers. It took the intervention of the fearless AC guys who stood their ground. Last last, they took the ballot boxes away (to INEC office to avoid snatching) before 6:30pm when just few people had voted. The next day we heard Akogun had been announced as the winner of the polls. This scenario alone makes me hate PDP so much. Yet some people are here telling us Yakubu is worse than Iwu.

EastGold:



We need to educate these kids.

2003, 2007 were the era of do or die politics.

Once you get the ticket of PDP, you can go to bed.


I remember we voted for Mimiko in Ondo, while we were still collating the result in Akure, Prof. Maurice Iwu announced it in Abuja.
Same applies to edo, OSUN, Ekiti.


I am not APC, neither am I for PDP but I hate hypocrisy

donphiilopus:


I bet the guy you quoted wouldn't reply this. I'm surprised they're calling Yakubu the worst Chairman when under him, PDP is about winning fourteen States and APC also winning fourteen States with AAC claiming one. During their time in govt, there was nothing like inconclusive election simply because they always rigged the election such that there wouldn't be any need to have inconclusive polls. Under this man, at least we now see margin of defeat being around 100 to 5000 which wasn't obtainable during the time of Iwu.

osamz007:


Aac claiming one
Which one my brother?