INEC responds to favouritism allegations in guber elections

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has waved off all the allegations of favouritism levelled against its resident electoral commissioners and other officials.

After the swearing-in of a new REC from Osun State, Tella Rahman, at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja, the chairman of the commission, Mahmood Yakubu, said that the allegations by politicians are ”mere distractions.

He said,

”Let me state without any shadow of a doubt to those characters, who made this atrocious allegation that I had meetings with political actors where anti-democratic schemes were discussed, I have not met Gov. Obaseki since he was sworn into office up until the moment of the press statement in contention.”

He promised free, fair, and credible elections ahead of the Edo and Ondo states governorship polls scheduled for September 19 and October 10 respectively.

He said,

“Let me say this that we stand by our resident electoral commissioners. You know the kind of job we are doing; all manners of people come with all manners of accusations to slander officials of the commission to divert our attention from the onerous task of conducting elections in Nigeria.

We won’t be distracted. We know all these shenanigans, people have been doing this to distract us from doing what is right.”