The Independent National Electoral Commission’s Resident
Electoral Commissioner in Lagos State, Mr Olusegun Agbaje has described the
call for his resignation by the Peoples Democratic Party presidential
candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as a waste of time.
Atiku who spoke through his Special Assistant on Public
Communications, Phrank Shaibu, alleged that Agbaje was attempting to compromise
the elections by planning to engage the Lagos State Park and Garage Management
Committee led by Musiliu Akinsanya, also known as MC Oluomo, for the movement
of sensitive electoral materials.
Agbaje however said the commission did not have any
agreement with Oluomo, adding that Electoral Officers were responsible for
logistics arrangements.
He told our correspondent in an interview on Thursday, “I don’t
have any agreement with Oluomo, I don’t know Oluomo and I have never met him in
my life. Whoever is saying that should come out and tell us more about it. So,
anybody calling for my resignation is just wasting time. Nobody can distract me
from doing my job. I am responsible to the INEC chairman and members of the
committee in Abuja, so all these are just distractions. We had a stakeholders
meeting and we addressed it.
“On the issue of how to access vehicles, the electoral
officers at the local governments are the ones to secure vehicles at their
various levels. That has been my pattern since I joined the commission because
I want to know who to hold responsible if they don’t commence elections by
8:30am.
“The electoral officers are already getting the vehicles and
they have almost completed the arrangement. Soon, we will be inviting the
Federal Road Safety Corps to inspect the vehicles. We told all the political
parties that if they have a better arrangement than what we are doing at
present, they should tell us.”
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