{"id":220436,"date":"2024-09-25T03:17:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T03:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/25\/stop-questioning-inecs-authority-over-edo-election-results\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T03:17:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T03:17:03","slug":"stop-questioning-inecs-authority-over-edo-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/25\/stop-questioning-inecs-authority-over-edo-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Questioning INEC&#8217;s Authority Over Edo Election Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The All Progressives Congress has warned civil society and election observer, YIAGA Africa, for challenging Independent National Electoral Commission, over the results of the just concluded Edo State gubernatorial election.<\/p>\n<p>APC in a statement released to the public by the party\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, on Tuesday, criticized the group for allegedly attempting to second-guess INEC\u2019s authority.<\/p>\n<p>Morka also accused the civil society of making baseless allegations regarding the manipulation of results, stating that these claims lacked supporting evidence and were based on speculative data.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The statement reads: \u201cINEC is the sole statutory authority for the conduct and declaration of election results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYiaga Africa is not and must desist from constituting itself as a parallel agency for the declaration of election results.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0#EdoDecides: CDD Accuses INEC Of Over Voting To Favor APC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlleging that results were manipulated without hard facts and figures, but based on some statistical guesswork, is a clear disservice to the electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYiaga Africa\u2019s report is a travesty, replete with methodological flaws, politicised observations, inconsistencies, and inaccuracies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElection observer missions are not election management agencies and cannot usurp INEC\u2019s statutory authority as the sole election management body in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeclaring or second-guessing the Edo State gubernatorial result based on unsubstantiated, unverified, and highly questionable statistical parameters created by Yiaga Africa is designed to create unnecessary confusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"941128\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-608169759\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/FirstBank-Giant-Strides300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress has warned civil society and election observer, YIAGA Africa, for challenging Independent National Electoral Commission, over the results of the just concluded Edo State gubernatorial election. 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