Obi-Datti Campaign Alleges Plot To Tamper With FCT Result In IReV Portal

The Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign has raised the alarm over alleged plans by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to tamper with the presidential election result on the IRev portal as it concerns the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Oseloka H. Obaze, the Obi-Datti campaign manager issued the warning in a statement issued by campaign spokesman, Diran Onifade on Saturday.

Obaze in the statement disclosed that information reaching the campaign had it that some officials were already bowing to pressure to tinker with the IREV results in some states and the FCT.

GWG.ng reports that the declared results showed Obi of the Labour Party won 62%, Ahmed Tinubu of the APC polled 20% while Atiku Abubakar of the APC polled 16%. Some legal experts posit that the winner of a presidential election must win 25% of the votes in two-third of the states and in the FCT.

Noting the alleged plot to tamper with the IReV result as pertaining to the FCT, Obaze said:

“INEC is tempering with the machines used in the election to adjust FCT results to give the APC candidate, the much-needed 25%, which he did not get as per the initial INEC declaration and for which he is being challenged at the Presidential election tribunal.

“It’s not clear how the Electoral Commission can brazenly carry out such bizarre action but given the abracadabra they did to announce the APC Candidate winner by 4 a.m., there is nothing to be taken for granted.”

Obaze warned that INEC and the ruling APC may be taking the adherence to the rule of law and due process disposition of Nigerians in general and the Obidient Movement in particular for granted.

He thus warned that INEC and the APC would be courting catastrophe for “them to want to pour salt into an open wound inflicted on Nigeria’s electorate,” if the FCT result in the IReV portal is compromised.

The Obi-Datti campaign manager further reminded INEC that “what they are trying to do is tantamount to raising a dead horse and that whether reports were fake or real, the commission should know the level of public confidence in them has long been eroded.”

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