Amina Zakari, a national
commissioner at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), will not
be involved in the collation of election results, a source at the INEC told
TheCable on Thursday evening.
The source said this while
reacting to the outrage that trailed the appointment of Zakari as head of a
committee ahead of the elections.
Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman,
had inaugurated the committees on collation center and electoral logistics on
Thursday.
Zakari was named as head of the
committee on collation center.
In its reaction, the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) had said by the appointment, INEC had given Zakari the
opportunity to rig the election in favour of the All Progressives Congress
(APC).
At a press conference in Abuja,
Kola Ologbondiyan, said Yakubu and the commission had set the tone for a huge
crisis.
Ologbondiyan said his party was
against the appointment of Zakari whom he described as a relative of President
Muhammadu Buhari.
But a source at INEC said the PDP
misconstrued what the appointment is about.
“She (Zakari) is only in charge
of the collation centre, basically issues around the administration of the
venue,” the source said.
“It is an in-house committee
responsible for water, electricity, briefing rooms, toilets, refreshment etc.
She chairs the committee in her new role as chairperson of health and welfare
committee.
“There is the results collation
committee/secretariat which is separate and under the exclusive control of the
INEC chairman. The collation centre committee has no role in processing results
collated from the states and presented to the chairman by vice-chancellors who
serve as collation officers.”
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