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2019 Elections: 60 Preidential Candidates Support INEC Over Server

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June 25, 2019
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INEC National Chairman, Mahamood Yakubu addressing journalists on voter register

INEC National Chairman, Mahamood Yakubu

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SIXTY presidential candidates in the 2019 election have declared their support for Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the latter’s stance that it had no server to record results of the election.

The candidates at a joint press conference in Abuja, on Tuesday, insisted that the commission’s position was not wrong, given that there was no provision in the law that mandated it to have server for the election.

To this end, they berated the opposition Peoples Democractic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, for insisting on access to the server, saying the demand was uncalled for, given that all political parties and their candidates in the poll were notified by the commission, prior to the election, that it would not adopt full election voting in the 2019 general election.

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Speaking under the aegis of Joint Forum of 60 Presidential Candidates, the candidates said the insistence of PDP and Atiku to inspect the server was “a plot to discredit the election as political parties never agreed with INEC in any of the several pre-election meetings that results will be transmitted electronically.”

Reading a prepared text to newsmen, the converner, Chief Perry Opara, said: “We reiterate that the INEC server controversy is unnecessary. It is a plot to discredit the election as political parties never agreed with INEC in any of the several pre-election meetings that results will be transmitted electronically. Parties agreed on a lot of issues with the commission and those were implemented.

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“The just concluded 2019 presidential election, the most recent in our democratic journey, was very eventful. Nigerians must recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, most commendably released for the very first time the timetable for the elections a full year before the poll day.

“The activities, preparatory to the elections, were all done in line with the timelines, hence Nigerians were in shock when the elections were postponed.

“The events that foisted the shift on INEC, we later discovered, were due to sabotage and political manipulations, which were prompted by politicians to gain undue advantage in the elections.

“We, however, applaud the proactive leadership of the electoral commission for taking the best decision in the interest of the nation to shift the opening of polls and conduct of the elections.

“For us, who were direct participants in the election and with the information we had, we felt the election was impossible in seven days, hence it was a major pull off for INEC to have conducted it that time without any major hitches.

“In the build-up to the elections, we, as presidential candidates and our political parties, held several meetings with INEC. The delay in finalising the electoral legal framework and the eventual withholding of assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill deprived the nation of the much needed reform of our electoral process, which must be anchored on the rule of law.

“The needless controversy over the INEC server would have been lawful as it would have been mandatory for the commission to deploy the server.”

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