INEC Faults Report On Rivers State Presidential Election calculation, Says It is damaging

INEC said {that a} trending report claiming that Peter Obi, not Bola Tinubu, gained the presidential election in Rivers State was “prejudicial”.

INEC introduced that Tinubu obtained 80,239 votes, whereas Obi obtained 3,839 votes. Atiku Abubakar of the PDP obtained 368 votes, whereas Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party obtained 162 votes. Tinubu was declared the election’s winner.

Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, the INEC chairman’s chief press secretary, advised Reporters yesterday in Abuja, “Whereas the Premium Instances reserves the suitable to publish experiences on numerous points, it’s a well-known incontrovertible fact that when a matter is earlier than a courtroom, nobody, together with a media organisation, ought to touch upon it.”

“Sadly, what the media outlet did by publishing a report on a difficulty earlier than the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal was prejudicial,” he mentioned. It ought to not have been carried out. I don’t know why they did it or what their motive was. “For that reason, I’m unable to remark,” he defined.