ELECTIONS PEACEFUL BUT I FAULT INEC FOR GIVING EMPTY PROMISE – HON. MUTIU KUNLE OKUNOLA
By Oki Samson, Trek Africa Newspaper
Hon. Mutiu Kunle Okunola during his accreditation to cast his vote
Like the presidential elections on 25th February, the National Coordinator of Tinubu 2023 Non Negotiable (TNN), Hon. Mutiu Kunle Okunola aka Living MKO has considered today’s gubernatorial election as peaceful. He, however, believed that Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s failed promise to transmit results electronically has resulted in voter apathy, especially among youths.
Hon. Okunola made this assertion after casting his vote at his Olusosun, Ojota polling unit today. He told Trek Africa Newspaper about today’s elections, ‘It’s a seamless process. I thank the FG for making it very peaceful. I exercised my franchise to make Nigeria a better place. I am here, the security is perfect, INEC is well-coordinated, all the agents are well-coordinated, and the processes are okay. This is a new polling unit created in Olusosun. I use to vote in Olusosun primary school.’
It was peaceful as at last time until the issue of uploading came up which is not within our capacity but at national level. I believe that can be resolved at the court rather than by violence’, said the Labour Party House of Reps candidate at the last elections.
Further, ‘the Living MKO’ told Trek Africa Newspaper about the presidential polls, ‘INEC started well, they promised heaven and earth until they ended sorrowfully. I don’t think they have anything to hide. The youths came out because of the promise of electronic transmission of results. Nobody wants to go into the crude method of counting, collating at the collation centre. I was attacked in 2019 for enforcing that the right results be collated. But I don’t think there should be voter apathy because it can lead to breakdown of law and order.’
‘Some of those creating problem don’t have visa. That’s why you should insist that we have good government’, Hon. Okunola concluded.
