INEC to Investigate Allegations Against Resident Electoral Commissioners

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it is investigating petitions against several State Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC) over the conduct of the Presidential and National Assembly elections as the Institution has received series of petitions against some electoral commissioners with claims that the electoral process of March 28, the commission was flawed.
In an interview the spokesman for the INEC Chairman, Mr Kayode Idowu reportedly said the petitions contained different alleged violations that some political parties believed took place during the elections.
He said the commission would look at the substance in the petitions before it would take a position.

“I am aware that the commission has received a number of petitions from diverse interests, raising one issue or the other about the political process.
“What the commission does with petitions is to interrogate the substance of those petitions,” he said, explaining that the claims must be substantial enough, with adequate prove that the process was scuttled for it to be upheld.
“The job of the commission is to look whether those complains were genuine and proven and how substantial it is to affect the procedure that played out during the elections,” Mr Idowu reiterated.