‘INEC Made Four Errors In Conduct Of Presidential, NASS Elections’
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Political Analyst, Sam Amadi, has insisted that the way INEC handled objections which were raised by some political parties during the announcement of the presidential election results contributed to the disputes being recorded currently.
Sam Amadi went on to say that he has been able to identify four adminstrative errors that were made by INEC during the conduct and announcement of the results of the presidential and national assembly elections.
Firstly, Sam Amadi said that the first adminstrative error was INEC’s failure to see itself as a regulator. Sam Amadi disclosed that INEC sees itself as a transaction officer whose job is to bring and distribute the ballot papers and ballot box.
The second adminstrative error that Sam Amadi revealed is INEC’s failure to carry out what the law says about the electronic transmission or transfer of results through the BVAS machine to the INEC server.
Sam Amadi stated that although there are some confusion with the usage of transfer or transmit in the electoral act, INEC Chairman fully understood what the electoral act meant. Sam Amadi went on to say that Mahmood Yakubu understood the electoral act perfectly and that was why he promised to transmit the results of the election in real-time.
Thirdly, Sam Amadi noted that the next administrative error was INEC’s failure to develop rules for filling petitions by aggrieved political parties. Sam Amadi was of the opinion that it was not enough for INEC to tell aggrieved political parties that it will look into their complains without having a framework of how to go about the issue of petitions.
Sam Amadi went on to state that the fourth administrative error that INEC made was its failure to clearly state whether or not a candidate needs to win 25 percent votes in Abuja to be declared the winner.
Sam Amadi said that as a regulator, INEC was supposed to get into an interpretive role by looking into the electoral act and if the act fails to clearly state if 25 percent in Abuja is needed, INEC would go ahead to state whether the commission will declare someone who fails to get the 25 percent in Abuja the winner of the presidential election or not.
Opera News
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on Mar 6 2023. Filed under National.
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