According to a statement signed by her media office on Friday, the Labour Party noted that the IREV portal should be monitored to stop a recurrence of challenges faced in the last Edo gubernatorial election.
The Deputy Governorship candidate of the Labour Party in the November 16 gubernatorial election of Ondo State, Olabisi Adu-Okunniyi, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to curb the possible reoccurrence of manipulations of election results.
According to a statement signed by her media office on Friday, the Labour Party noted that the IREV portal should be monitored to stop a recurrence of challenges faced in the last Edo gubernatorial election.
According to her statement, the “Labour Party and Obi-dients are worried about the disorder observed in the results of the Edo governorship elections.”
It was stated that the last elections in Edo State “showed that Politicians have continued to perfect and consolidate the electoral malpractices and the mishap of election results on INEC Portal called glitches.”
The statement recalled that similar incident occurred in the 2023 presidential elections ‘to the detriment of credible elections and governance in the country.’
The statement further noted that “Ondo Youths and all Obi-dients have been mobilised and placed on alert to collaborate with civil society activists to resist any form of electoral malpractices, especially vote buying at the Polling Units.”
The statement reteirated “that all elections results must be uploaded to the INEC (IREV) Portal in real time from the Polling Units, in accordance with the electoral act of Nigeria, to avoid usual electoral disputes of elections in Nigeria.”
In the statement, Adu-Okunniyi noted that it was time for “well-meaning people of Ondo State to troop out en-mass to stop manipulators and Riggers of their mandate so that leaders who will be accountable to them can take charge of state governance for the inclusive prosperity of the masses of the people of Ondo State, noting that the people are really tired of the heightening poverty and hardship in country.”
She also urged electorates to vote for the Labour Party promising inclusiveness, transparency and accountability.
The development comes in the heels of an Abuja based Appeal court judgement which sacked Ebiseni Olusola as the Labour Party governorship candidate for the November 16, governorship election.