Concerning the Certified True Copies (CTC) reports of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for the Osun governorship election, the Human & Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Center) has taken the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to task.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party received copies that appeared to differ from one another, prompting the organisation to express concerns (PDP).
In order to prevent influence peddling and election tampering, HEDA additionally requested that anti-corruption agencies keep an eye on electoral commission personnel.
According to a statement released by HEDA yesterday, Adegboyega Oyetola, the APC candidate and governor of Osun State, reportedly requested Certified True Copies (CTC) of the BVAS Report for the election on July 18, 2022, two days after the poll had taken place. The Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), upon which the election was conducted, had received praise from all around the world.
“INEC was on record as having issued the CTC of the BVAS Report to APC and Oyetola on July 29, 2022, following the completion of the necessary payments.
“APC and Oyetola served INEC their petition contesting the results in 749 polling places because they claimed there had been overvoting in certain places.
It is claimed that INEC tampered with the contents of the original BVAS report to protect the mandate given to Ademola Adeleke and the PDP at the expense of a credible election after realising the obvious discrepancies between the numbers recorded as accredited votes on the EC8A (result sheet) and the BVAS Report. This was done by issuing a new CTC to the defendants and claiming the CTC previously given to APC and Oyetola was
How conceivable is it for INEC to have declared a winner from an out of sync BVAS, given that the Ekiti and Osun elections were held and results were announced using BVAS? Taking into account that the Osun election was almost ten days ago when the BVAS report was published.
HEDA is concerned about this development as an organisation devoted to fighting financial and electoral corruption. The Organization monitored the Osun election and participated in the vote-buying campaign in coordination with anti-corruption organisations.
“In light of this particular grave inconsistency and those related to the senatorial ticket attempts by the current Senate President in Yobe and Former Governor Godswill Akpabio in Akwa Ibom, INEC is tasked with improving and remaining consistent in order to hold a credible, free, fair, and popular election in 2023.
In order to prevent influence peddling and election tampering, the anti-corruption authorities are also mandated to closely watch Commission officials
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