The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has described as false, report that it’s employees from the south east and south south are being transfered out of Lagos ahead the Governor and House of Assembly elections.
The state is the stronghold of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, which lost the votes to Peter Obi, candidate of the Labour Party, LP, during the presidential election on February 25.
Obi is from the south east region, and much of his votes were believed to have come from Igbo and people from the south south region.
The ruling party is said to be doing everything to ensue that it takes back the state in the guber and state house of Assembly election slated for this weekend, and bribery of officials of INEC officials by the party has been prime in the allegations against it.
Therefore, when a social media user Omotayo Williams tweeted that some INEC staff from the south east and south south, have been transferred out of the state, and replaced with new ones, the report quickly went rival.
“#JUSTIN: The @inecnigeria office in Lagos has removed all Igbo and South-South staff in the State from sensitive election duties for the March 18th election,” Williams wrote in a tweet.
Adding that “They did not give any reason, but it was said that the INEC leadership which takes directives from the Tinubu political group said they do not trust the Igbo/SS staff to do as they will want them to do at the election.”
He noted that the alleged act of INEC should not be tolerated because it has the tendency to compromise the upcoming governorship election.
Responding INEC said the report should be dismissed as a fake, misleading news, as the commission will not do anything that’s capable of affecting the integrity of the election.
Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC chairman who spoke to journalists in Abuja, the nation’s capital on Wednesday urged Nigerians to dismiss such insinuation.
