JUST IN: INEC ‘Opens Up’ On Contract With MC Oluomo

JUST IN: INEC ‘Opens Up’ On Contract With MC Oluomo

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has stated that the contract for logistics delivery for the upcoming general elections in Lagos State has been awarded to individual drivers rather than Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo.

Festus Okoye, National Commissioner of INEC and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, made the clarification in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja.

Okoye was responding to concerns and controversies raised by INEC’s plan to engage the Lagos Park Management Committee, led by MC Oluomo, for transportation of election materials and personnel in the state’s upcoming elections.

Several individuals and groups, including the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have expressed concern about INEC’s use of the Lagos Park Management Committee.

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In response, he stated that the road transport union’s role was to help the commission sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the commission and the drivers who would be engaged for election duty.

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“This commission has contracts with individual drivers. The National Union of Road Transport Workers has no vehicles. So, we signed individual contracts with all the persons who are going to provide vehicles for us.

“For this election we are going to hire at least 138,000 vehicles. We are going to hire over 4,000 boats and we are going to hire over 8,000 motorcycles.

“We are going to sign individual contracts with all these people. The only thing the road transport union workers do for us is that we have what we call a Memorandum of Understanding with them, so that if for instance any of the members goes AWOL, they will help us track the person down.

“If somebody does not report on time, they will help us find out why the person has not reported on time. But our contract is with individual drivers,” he said.

Okoye urged Nigerians not to associate INEC with individuals, claiming that the commission’s commitment was to individual drivers.

“The Resident Electoral Commissioner for Lagos State has never said that we are going to work with individuals you have mentioned.

“What he said was that if there’s no NURTW in Lagos, but the Park Management Committee, that we are going to work with the committee, because we cannot be seen to be breaking the law.

“So, that is the issue. People should banish this whole idea of linking the commission to an individual.

“Our commitment is to the individual drivers that are going to sign a contract with and we are also going to take oath of neutrality and oath of allegiance to the commission, and that is where we stand on the matter,” he said.

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