A former chairman of the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has claimed that “reckless politicians” infiltrated the election outcomes viewing portal generally known as IReV through the 2023 common elections.
Jega, who known as for an investigation, made the announcement on Friday throughout an look on Channels Tv's Inside Sources programme.
Throughout the February 25, 2023 presidential elections, the fee was unable to instantly add election outcomes to the IReV portal, sparking public outrage.
Reacting to the event, Jega mentioned that regardless of the committee's efforts to get it proper, some determined politicians have pissed off its efforts by infiltrating the portal.
Jega mentioned: “In 2023, INEC did its greatest underneath very troublesome circumstances, and lots of of those troublesome circumstances have been attributable to the mentality of our egocentric politicians who needed to win come what may.
“INEC has over time launched know-how to make the method of election outcomes extremely clear and sincere, however from my very own expertise once I was in INEC from 2011 to 2015, I think a lot of that can have remained the identical till 2023. our reckless politicians are attempting to remain one step forward of INEC.
“Should you introduce one thing immediately and take a look at it, they may attempt to get forward of you and defeat it within the subsequent election.
“And naturally they will additionally use methods and means to not solely shorten, but additionally circumvent one thing that’s truly legitimately positioned to extend the integrity of the method.
“Should you ask for my opinion, I strongly imagine that INEC ought to inform us extra about what occurred to the IReV.
“At one level I even known as for a radical public investigation into what was taking place concerning IReV.
“I really feel that one thing occurred that regardless of the arrogance and the very articulate method wherein the INEC Chairman (Mahmood Yakubu) had spoken concerning the IReV, it subsequently failed.
“I imagine a few of our reckless politicians might have infiltrated and truncated it, however INEC will take the blame for that.”
He additional urged that INEC would get to the foundation of what occurred to the IReV portal in spite of everything authorized instances have been resolved.
