[FILE PHOTO] INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu
• We’ll not trifle with our confidentiality, says official
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to grant international and local observers access to its situation room during the elections.
It said the call became imperative because of President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill and alleged manipulations during the Osun State gubernatorial poll.
“INEC said it has spent money to acquire software and improve on the card readers. If the optimised card readers have the facility to transmit results from the polling units, then the situation room should be equally accessible to poll observers, to ensure nobody uses information to subvert the process.”
While interacting with journalists in Lagos, yesterday, the party’s National Publicity Secretary Kola Ologbondiyan said pointers suggest the ruling All Progressives Congress…
