INEC Clears Air On Suspended Electoral Officers. PDP! LYING AND DECEIVING NIGERIANS SINCE 1960. THE reported suspension of two electoral officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Osun State over alleged electoral fraud during the August 9, governorship poll assumed a new dimension on Wednesday, when the umpire said that one of the affected officers was suspended for administrative lapses. In a press release authorised by the INEC’s Chief Public Affairs Officer (CPAO) in Osun, Mrs Adenike Tadese, the electoral body contended that “it is imperative to correct the erroneous impression created over the pages of the newspapers concerning the suspension of two INEC officers over alleged electoral fraud during the August 9 governorship election.”According to the release, “it is pertinent to clarify and also set the record straight that the two electoral officers (EO), Mr Funsho Tope Fabunmi (Osogbo Local Government) and Mr Anthony Olusegun Esinoye (Obokun Local Government) were not suspended based on alleged collusion with the All Progressives Congress (APC) to manipulate electoral process in favour of the party in Osogbo and Obokun local government councils respectively.”The release reads in part: “they were neither culpable of selling ballot papers to the APC nor manipulating Form EC8C to favour the APC and voiding of PDP votes counted in favour of the APC. Mr Fabunmi was suspended based on administrative lapses occasioned in the course of discharging his duties.”It continued, “Mr Esinoye, Electoral Officer, Obokun Local Government, on 7th August, 2014 was alleged by the people of Obokun Local Government Area of diverting sensitive election materials and was arrested by the police in the area.”“A press statement was immediately issued to correct the spurious allegation that non-sensitive materials which were supposed to be deployed alongside with the sensitive materials were erroneously taken to the Registration Area Centre alongwith materials meant for the setting up of the centre by the Assistant Executive Officer of the local government while the electoral officer was at the state office of the Commission in Osogbo for the collection of the sensitive election materials in the presence of security and political party agents,” the release added. While arguing that “it was at the point of retrieval of the non-sensitive materials thatthe residents of the area accosted him and raised alarm that drew the attention of the police,” INEC stressed that “it is important at this point to emphasis that INEC headquarters did not find the electoral officers culpable of working for the APC to rig the election as purported by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).”
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 09:35:32 +0000
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