{"id":109409,"date":"2023-11-30T05:05:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T04:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=109409"},"modified":"2023-11-30T05:05:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T04:05:45","slug":"imo-guber-inec-frustrating-moves-to-inspect-bvas-sen-achononu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/imo-guber-inec-frustrating-moves-to-inspect-bvas-sen-achononu\/","title":{"rendered":"Imo Guber: INEC frustrating moves to inspect BVAS \u2013 Sen. Achononu\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1783924082797072998\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">After 19 days of the conduct of the governorship election in Imo State, candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the election, Sen. Athan Achononu has raised alarm that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is frustrating every attempt to inspect the Bi-modal Voter Accreditation System (B-VAS) used during the conduct of the exercise.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Recall that Presidential Candidate of the same party Peter Obi on Monday lamented that several months after the Supreme Court delivered judgement on the Presidential election, he is yet to get a Certified True Copy (CTC) after he requested and made payments for it.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Sen. Achononu in chat with the media in Abuja on Wednesday\u00a0 wondered why the electoral empire is foot dragging in allowing him access to the materials knowing fully well that he has limited times to tender his evidence before the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The former lawmaker who claimed that he won the election, said that the delay in releasing the BVAS for inspection my be part of the plans by the ruling party to force him to file his petitions out of time and get his matter struck out on technical grounds.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said, \u201cWhat is happening right now is that we went to the Tribunal, got an order for us to be allowed to inspect the BVAS. INEC has refused to let us inspect the BVAS up till now. Lawyers and experts were hired at a very huge cost per day 30 million, they are not allowing us to inspect it despite court order\u201d.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The governorship candidate called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu whom he described a democratic who went through the trenches to ensure that democracy returns to the country, to intervene and compell INEC to do the right thing. He said that Tinubu\u2019s antecedent as one who fought for democracy is the only thing sustaining his desire to seek justice at the tribunal.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWhat gives me confidence is that Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu was on the street for June 12, he made us believe that he was a democrat fighting for justice, freedom of choice and equal opportunity.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWell he is in the same party with Sen. Hope Uzodimma but this country shouldn\u2019t be about party, it should be about quality of persons, what do you represent. I was in the senate with the first Lady, Sen. Tinubu, I know the kind of person she is, a person of integrity, how can they allow this kind of thing to happen under their watch.\u201d He querried.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Sen. Achononu said that the INEC Chairman during the stakeholders meeting pledged that election result collations will start from the ward to the local government before the state but lamented that collation never took place in any ward. He accused INEC of colluding with the ruling party in the state to announced results that were not signed even when party agents were raising objections as to the credibility of those results.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWhen we came to stakeholders meeting, we told the INEC chairman Prof. Mahmoud that there are certain things he needs to put in place for a smooth election. One is the removal of the REC. Secondly is that collation must take place at the ward level, local government level before the state level. We insisted that the result sheets must be signed by three officers, a national commissioner, the REC and each EO will sign that of his local government so that there will be no manipulation of the result sheets and he agreed.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cBut surprisingly on the election day, there was no collation at the ward level even in some local government. They moved everything to the state and in those places where there were insecurity and no election, results were collated, there were cluster voting in Orsu\u201d Achononu lamented.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The LP candidate however expresses slight hope that he will get justice in the judiciary, saying that all hope is not lost.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said, \u201cI still have belief and faith in the survival of this country. I still claim that there are some men of integrity within the judiciary. These are men who hold the power of life and death over us. These are men who are supposed to live above reproach. There must be one or two of them, I hope I come across one of them in my case. I still believe in this country no matter what anybody says. Something will happen. Yes, I have come across a lot of men of integrity in this country, very few of them. I want to think that this will be the first test case of the judiciary, let&#8217;s see what happens\u201d he said with an air of matchless confidence.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Sign<\/div>\n<div class=\"signature-text\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Obiora Ifoh<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Nps<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 19 days of the conduct of the governorship election in Imo State, candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the election, Sen. 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