INEC deliberately sabotaged the electoral process - Dele Farotimi knocks Mahmood Yakubu

Lagos State-based lawyer and human rights activist, Dele Farotimi has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC deliberately sabotaged the electoral process.

He said this during an interview on Channels Television Politics Today with Seun Okinbaloye.

In his submission, Farotimi noted that everything worked during the 2023 general elections except INEC and that the commission was the principal failure of the day.

He said;

"All the evidences are very clear and it shows very clearly that everything that should work on that worked except INEC. The integrity of INEC as an institution went on exile. So, if a person who is now purported to speak on such an organisation is so lacking in shame."

When asked if the BVAS introduced to the election by the commission, he responded saying, "everything worked except the INEC. I wasn't just speaking to the election, I participated. I was at the polling unit as designated.

"The BVAS machine worked as much as it was allowed to work by human maginations because at my own polling booth, the first set, some alphabets were not working so they couldn't accredit those on time. We later realised that it was designed to frustrate some people into leaving but people were determined to vote so they waited. Voting did not end in my polling unit until about 8:40 thereabout in the evening. And they did not finish counting until about 1:42am.

"On the day in question everything worked in my own space until it came to the upload. They could upload House of Rep, Senate but the presidential election was not amenable to upload. It is very clear what went wrong, INEC deliberately and I say this without equivocation and all sense of responsibility. INEC deliberately sabotages the electoral process because it was working to a predetermined, obnoxious conclusion. It is not about the system failing, it is about human beings electing on their own to sabotage the system.

"What INEC has done is to remove the citizens, the place of the voters from the electoral process," he added.

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