The Independent National Electoral
Commission has yet to declare the results of the Presidential and
National Assembly elections conducted in Oshodi/Isolo Local Government
Area of Lagos.
The INEC Electoral Officer for the council, Mrs. Adeola Adekunle, confirmed this to our correspondent in her office on Sunday.
She linked the delay in the declaration of the result to the elections yet to be conducted in five polling units in the council.
She explained that the outstanding polls
had yet to begin because the two leading parties, the Peoples Democratic
Party and the All Progressives Party, were contesting the commission’s
modalities for the exercise.
The outstanding polling units are Unit 022, Unit 054, Unit 055, Unit 066 and Unit 067.
Among the party stalwarts that were at
the Oshodi INEC office to resolve the disagreement were the Lagos State
PDP Chairman, Chief Tunde Shelle, and the Special Adviser to the
Governor on Information and Strategy, Mr. Lateef Raji.
While Shelle canvassed that the election
should go on in the five designated polling units, Raji, an APC
stalwart, claimed that the exercise should take place in more than five
polling units.
According to Raji, limiting the exercise
to the five outstanding units would amount to disenfranchising many
willing voters in the council.
Raji said that the outstanding polling
units in the area were over five, noting that, elections must be
conducted in all outstanding areas in Oshodi/Isolo.
But, Shelle, who alleged that the APC in
the council wanted to compromise the process, insisted that the exercise
in the five polling units must go ahead.
Shelle added, “Five units were approved for the elections to be conducted today in addition to the ones done yesterday.
“The opposition party in Lagos doesn’t want this to happen and they are trying to intimidate the electoral officer.”
Findings by our correspondent showed that no voting had taken place in the designated polling units as of 7.30pm on Sunday.
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