News2023 Presidential/NASS Elections Fatally Flawed, Didn’t Comply With Law - Sen Bassey

2023 Presidential/NASS Elections Fatally Flawed, Didn’t Comply With Law – Sen Bassey

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March 01, (THEWILL) – Senator representing Cross River South in the National Assembly, Gershom Bassey, says the just concluded presidential and national assembly elections is fatally flawed, as it did not Comply with the law.

Senator Bassey, a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), made this known in Calabar while formally reacting to the just concluded elections.

He said having to wait for over 48 hours before INEC uploads a result is completely unacceptable and he has lost confidence in the country’s electoral commission.

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In his words, “I do not have confidence in the results declared so far by INEC and the reason is very simple.

“We are the people that passed that electoral law and it is very clear in the law that there are three stages of the process when you get to the polling unit.

“The first stage is the verification stage, where you use BVAS, the second is when you thumbprint and vote after you have been verified and the third stage is uploading of the results after they have been announced at the polling unit.

“In a situation where you vote, result is declared at the polling unit but it is not uploaded, which is part of the process, it means that the process is immediately fatally flawed. Uploading the results 24-48 hours later is unacceptable because the essence of uploading immediately which is transparency, is completely gone.

“So nobody can tell me it is a transparent election because at the very least, it has not complied with the law which is a problem immediately.

“So INEC has a very big issue, that is why you find a lot of people calling for the cancellation of the election or a complete overview of every result and the only way to do that is by bringing every point unit’s result, put it against what the returning officers had brought from the states and compare.

“So I do not accept the results of the presidential election in any way, shape or form as it is presently constituted”, Senator Bassey said.”

On the poor performance of his party in the state, Senator Bassey said, “It is time for us to all go back to the drawing board and see what we did right or wrong.

“This has been a verdict from the people of the southern senatorial district. So we in the PDP have to go out and do some soul searching to see how we can get things right for next time”, he said.

He added that his party in the state has been greatly divided because if you look at everybody that won, they are all former PDP members, including the Labour party candidate that won.

He said next time could be anytime, it could be in a re-run election, run off election or governorship election, but these are some of the lessons we must learn deliberately for the next elections.

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THEWILL Correspondent, Aniekan Bassey has over six years experience that spans across several fields in print journalism including development communication, sexual reproductive and health rights issues, crime, climate change, social justice, business and human interest stories.

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