Ex-APC Spokesman Makes Demand From INEC Ahead Of Bayelsa Guber Poll

A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Yekini Nabena, has said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must have a clear direction for transmitting the Bayelsa State gubernatorial election results.

Naija News recalls that the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, on Friday inaugurated the national campaign team with a task to mobilise, study all the guidelines and deliver the party’s candidate, Timipre Sylva.

Speaking with newsmen on Sunday in Abuja, Nabena challenged INEC to quickly state clearly the election guidelines it will employ to avoid confusion.

The APC chieftain insisted that INEC is obligated to tell the voters whether it will use BVAS or transmit election results from the polling unit.

He said, “First and foremost, the seurity system should be focused in Bayelsa State. And INEC should come out plain this time around. Is it BVAS, or do we just do whatever we want while INEC takes it from there? There is no clear direction. So you can do whatever you want to do then INEC can come back and do what they like. They are telling us INEC said they don’t have the power to transmit.

“INEC must have a clear direction so that voters will know this is the system. So that everybody can protect his or her votes. Not that somebody will go to Government House and write these things for INEC.

“So tell us, are you going to transmit the result from polling units? Or what are you going to do? Are you going to use BVAS? Tell us from day one. Let there be a guideline and an understanding that this is it. Not the one court will say INEC can come up with anything they want. Politics is the biggest business in the world.”

Speaking on APC’s chances of victory in the election, Nabena added: “We are going to win. We have done it before, we will do it again.”