The Director General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Balogun Akin Osuntokun, has implored the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, not to plunge the nation into an avoidable crisis after a largely peaceful election.

Osuntokun, who said this in a statement early yesterday, expressed the party’s displeasure at the conduct of INEC officials in most parts of Lagos, Imo, Rivers and Delta states where he said a substantial number of his party members were disenfranchised.

The DG expressed gratitude to Nigerians for maintaining the peace in the face of provocation by status quo politicians working in cahoots with INEC officials in an attempt to subvert their collective will.

At this point they want to alert Nigerians that the rest lies on INEC and INEC’s performance in this election has been disgraceful. He said that they are sad that there is unnecessary delay in transmitting results from across the country and also they are alerting INEC that Nigerian youths are impatient and would not accept any deliberate failure to transmit the real results.

He said further that Nigerian people will not accept any later transmission of fake results since they received intelligence of effort being made in Imo State, Rivers State, Lagos State, and several other states to compromise the results and that anyone who pays attention to the mood of Nigerian people know that the people-north, south, east and west- are tired. They want a better future for their people, they want a Nigeria that works for all citizens and they will resist any conspiracy by INEC and the status quo politicians to overthrow their sovereign will.

He also said that they are calling on INEC to quickly upload the results of the pooling units. INEC leadership should resist the attempt by Governors and leading politicians in these states to subvert the will of the people.

The DG called on Nigerian to be vigilant and note that INEC is the one now pushing the country to the precipices of violence by its deliberate inefficiency and failures to implement the provisions of the electoral law.