Labour Party (LP) has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against its alleged attempt to doctor the February 25 presidential election results of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to satisfy sinister motives.
The manager of the Obi-Datti presidential campaign, Mr. Oseloka Obaze, raised the alarm in a tweet.
Obaze who warned INEC against tempering with the IRev as it concerns the FCT also alleged that the commission was pressured to tinker with the results of some states including the FCT to enable the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to be in good standing.
A statement from the Obi-Datti media office signed by its head, Mr. Diran Onifade, quoted Obaze as saying: “According to our source, INEC is tempering with the machines used in the election to adjust FCT results to give the APC candidate, the much-needed 25 per cent, which he did not get as per the initial INEC declaration and for which he is being challenged at the Presidential election tribunal.
“It’s not clear how the Electoral Commission can brazenly carry out such bizarre action but given the abracadabra they did to announce the APC Candidate winner by 4 a.m., there is nothing to be taken for granted.
“Mr. Obaze warns that INEC and the ruling APC may be taking the adherence to the rule of law and due process disposition of Nigerians in general and the Obidient Movement in particular for granted, but it would be courting catastrophe for them to want to pour salt into an open wound inflicted on Nigeria’s electorate.”
The statement also quoted Obaze as telling the commission that what it was purportedly planning to do was akin to flogging a dead horse adding that whether the reports were fake or real, the commission should know that public confidence in it had long waned.
