By Damilare Adeleye
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has dismissed claim that three of his staff members were maliciously reconfiguring the BVAS machines in Kogi State Government House with the intention of manipulating the forthcoming in the State.
The electoral Commission, in a statement released on Saturday, described story as fake and untrue.
INEC said this while reacting to a statement by ID Ijele, Director of New Media of the SDP Governorship campaign team in Kogi State.
The commission explained that, ‘‘The three persons mentioned are not associated with the configuration of the BVAS machines and not even in Kogi State at the moment. Mr. Nicholas Ocholi is on his duty post in our Ondo State office in Akure. Ibrahim Egbunu is attending to a very close family member hospitalised in Abuja. Mohammed Adara retired last year and is no longer a staff of the Commission.”
It further stated that “the configuration of BVAS is done simultaneously and exclusively in our offices in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi States professionally and strictly handled by teams deployed from the national HQ, Abuja.”
The commission urged members of the public to disregard the speculation in its entirety, while appealing to political parties to desist from engaging in malicious rumour mongering of this nature.