The Director, Media & Publicity, APC Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga says attempts by the opposition parties, spokesmen of their campaign councils to discredit the presidential and National Assembly elections conducted nationwide, on Saturday will fail.
The APC identified spokespersons of Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council and that of the Peoples Democratic Party/Atiku Presidential Campaign Council as being culpable.
In his words, “the persons we consider as respectable citizens, Professor Pat Utomi and Director-General of Peter Obi Campaign Council, Mr. Akin Osuntokun threw caution to the wind by their inciting and incendiary comments on social media and TV stations where they have been making baseless and irresponsible allegations of electoral manipulations and other malpractices against our party and the electoral umpire, all in a bid to cause disaffection and civil unrest in the country.
“We must also stress that we have noticed many partisan talking heads claiming to be Election Observers on radio and TV stations who are presenting skewed and patently false narratives about the general conduct of the election across the country.
“Both Labour Party and PDP have accused INEC of conspiring to rig election results in favour of our party, anchoring their allegation on the agency’s inability to upload election results on its website.
“While we call on INEC to expedite action on the process of uploading the results, we want to state categorically that there is nothing unusual about the seeming delay.
“INEC returning officers bringing the results to the National Collation Centre from the 36 states, may be contending with possible travel logistics as witnessed on Day One of the collation on Sunday, when only Ekiti state was ready with its result.
There could also be technical issues with INEC Results Viewing Portal which we are sure the commission will quickly resolve.
“It is worth stating that election results have been announced and made public at polling units and duly signed by accredited party agents in line with the Electoral Law.”
