2023 Elections: INEC Speaks on Why MC Oluomo Has to Move Electoral Materials During Polls
- To distribute sensitive electoral materials in Lagos state, the Independent National Electoral Commission has said it will work with the Lagos State Parks Management Committee (LSPMC)
- As a result, there has been a barrage of calls against using LSPMC led by Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo
- According to INEC, it would not be dealing with MC Oluomo, who is a known loyalist to Bola Tinubu, but the LSPMC as an entity
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it has no option but to engage the Lagos State Parks Management Committee (LSPMC)'s services to distribute sensitive electoral materials.
Premium Times reports that Olusegun Agbaje, the Lagos state Resident Electoral Commissioner made the disclosure during an Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) meeting on Tuesday, February 7.
Source: UGC
Agbaje's remark was in response to questions on the consequences of engaging the services of the LSPMC led by Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, an ally to Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress.
INEC's decision comes months after Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state banned the operations of the Nation Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) in the state. The governor set up the LSPMC after the ban.
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Continuing, Agbaje said that INEC, as an entity, is not concerned with the person of Mc Oluomo but about the individual drivers and vehicle owners under the management of LSPMC who are expected to meet up with the high volume of logistics needs for the elections.
His words:
“There is a ban on the NURTW and RTEAN, we are only left with the Park Management system and NARTO (National Association of Road Transport Owners), and we are already working with NARTO.
“NARTO is not even able to meet up with 40 per cent of our vehicle requirements for this election. The commission in Lagos State does not have any option than to use a park management system.
“We are not dealing with Oluomo, we are dealing with the park managers. Individual people that have vehicles are those we are going to use."
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Meanwhile, INEC had been urged to allow the Lagos State Parks Management Committee (LSPMC) to distribute sensitive materials on election day.
The call was made by Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, the general manager of LSPMC.
Oluomo, also an ally to Bola Tinubu, the standard-bearer of the All Progressives Congress, said his demand became necessary to avoid technical, logistics and deployment challenges that could affect polls in Lagos and other neighbouring states.
“Don’t use MC Oluomo to distribute Lagos election materials,” Atiku’s aide cautions INEC
INEC had earlier been warned against engaging the services of the Lagos State Parks Management Committee to distribute election materials.
An aide to PDP's presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, says the committee cannot be trusted to be unbiased.
The committee is headed by a known public figure who is a member of the APC presidential campaign council.
Source: Legit.ng
