Don’t Endanger Corps Members If You Won’t Transmit Results – Charles Ogbu Tells INEC

Date: 17-03-2023 11:19 am (1 week ago) | Author: Bayo Nelson
- at 17-03-2023 11:19 AM (1 week ago)
(m)

Charles Ogbu, a social justice activist and critic, has made a call to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC ahead of the March 18 election. He advised the INEC not to expose innocent members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, to the danger of mob action if it is not ready to give Nigerians credible elections by transmitting results in real time. He also urged INEC not to switch off the result uploading equipment as it did on February 25, insisting that the election had been adjudged by local and international observers as “deeply flawed”.

Ogbu, who gave the warning in a statement via his verified Facebook page on Friday, lamented that it broke his heart to see the innocent ad-hoc staff of the commission held hostage during the presidential election because voters insisted results must be uploaded into the servers before they leave. He lamented that INEC had all the time to prepare and got all the money it asked for but could not provide voting pads and ink in some polling units in Lagos during the last election.

While noting that some Nigerians are currently seething with rage over what he described as “institutionalized fraud” by INEC, Ogbu urged the commission not to make Nigerians start viewing it as their worst enemies.

Part of the statement read: ”Please, if you know you are not going to give Nigerians a CREDIBLE, FREE, FAIR & TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS tomorrow, complete with REAL TIME ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION OF RESULTS as required by law and as you yourself repeatedly promised, please don’t bother exposing innocent youth corpers to the danger of mob action. I carry God beg you. Don’t go and switch off the result uploading equipment as you and your IT guys did on February 25, which ended up giving us an election that has been adjudged by both local and international observers, the press as well as the international community as “deeply flawed”.

”During the presidential poll, it broke my heart to see the innocent ad-hoc staff of your commission held hostage into the night by voters who were insisting that the results must be uploaded into the servers before they would leave. Unknown to both the voters and your staff that you, the chairman, had arranged with your crooked IT guys to switch off the machine for the uploading of the results.

”On February 25, you guys came to some voting centres without a voting pad and ink. In Okota, Lagos, it was the voters who went to buy ink and pad for your staff. And no, that wasn’t because you couldn’t afford one, it was you deliberately trying to disenfranchise voters in opposition strongholds.

”If tomorrow’s elections are rigged either by INEC refusing to upload the untainted results from the polling unit or allowing their fraudulent Professors to re-write results as we saw in rivers, Imo and other places, the consequences may be far-reaching.”


Posted: at 17-03-2023 11:19 AM (1 week ago) | Hero
- Allsense at 17-03-2023 03:14 PM (1 week ago)
(m)
EYE-NECK is an enemy of the nation. They failed woefully the last time, I still don't expect good results from them until after election if every process is duly observed
Posted: at 17-03-2023 03:14 PM (1 week ago) | Gistmaniac
Reply

fire TRENDING GISTS fire

TODAY'S TOP
  1. APC Supporters Protest in Abuja to Demand Congratulatory Messages For President-elect Tinubu.

  2. Court to Sanction 41yr Old Dutch Musician Who Has Fathered 550 Children Around The World

  3. See Why Married Women Are Now Returning To The ‘streets’ – Joro Olumofin Reveals (Video)

  4. Most of BBNaija Babes Wants me to Hook Them up With my Big Friends - WhiteMoney Spills (VID)

  5. Nigeria Super Eagles Fly Over Guinea-Bissau In Second-Leg Of AFCON Qualifiers Match

  6. Court Sentences Domestic Staff To Death By Hanging For Killing Employer, Daughter In Lagos

  7. SERAP Demands Immediate Release Of Nigerian Journalist, Agba Jalingo From Kuje Prison

  8. Banky W's Wife Adesua Etomi-Wellington Pens Romantic Message As He Turns A Year Older

  9. How Gunmen Kill NSCDC Personnel, Two MTN Officials In Imo

  10. Lady, Mmesoma Reveals It's A Crime Against Herself & Humanity If She Ends Up With A Broke Man

  11. Aggrieved Women Strip To Innerwear At US Embassy To Protest Outcome Of 2023 Pres. Election


THIS WEEK
  1. We’ll Make Nigeria Ungovernable If Labour Party, PDP Attempt To Stop Tinubu’s Swearing In - FFK

  2. Former Gov. of Zamfara, Yari Joins Race For Senate President

  3. BREAKING! Nollywood Actress Gbemi Anjola Dies After Prolonged Battle With Ovarian Cancer

  4. If Tinubu Can Create A Seaport In Anambra; Igbos Will Worship Him – Actress, Cossy Ojiakor

  5. Nigerians Call For The Ban Of New Hollywood Horror Movie 'Children Of The Corn"

  6. Tinubu’s Daughter Speaks On Dad’s Electoral ‘Victory, Begs Nigerians to Support Him

  7. Watch What People Did When Peter Obi Arrive Venue Of Gov Soludo's '1 Year In Office' Event

  8. NBA President Calls For Live Broadcast of The Proceedings From Presidential Election Tribunal

  9. Moment Davido Jumped To Welcome Broda Shaggi In His Home (VIDEO)

  10. We Won Election Without Obi – Abia Governor-Elect, Otti


TOP MEMBERS: