The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has said that there is no need for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to apologize for the failure of the result transmission system in the recent elections.
IPAC Chairman, Yabagi Sani, on Channels TV, said that INEC had put in place all the necessary resources to ensure that the result transmission system worked, but that human error was to blame for the failure.
Sani said that INEC should instead focus on punishing those responsible for the failure and improving its procedures for future elections.
He said, “Assuming you are the chairman of INEC here in Abuja, you spent all your time before the elections with your people. You trained them, you went round with them, you spent the night with them and you gave all the resources they required, you even ran test of all these things and everything went fine.
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“Of course you would go to town to say that we can deliver because we have tested it, my people are there, I know that they have the knowledge, they have the experience, we trained them. But the human nature, when they’re out there, played out which we saw.
“What can they do? Perhaps punish some of them or change the style, but you know human beings, we are so difficult to manage.
“How can you be happy when you promised people you are going to deliver this because of what you have done? Everybody in this country is not happy with what happened.
“Apologize for what? If you deliberately did something or you as a person you made the mistake you can say I am sorry I make this mistake but it is not you as a person because you have put in place all the resources required.
“The apology is what we said they should do in the off-season elections, the three elections coming. So there is no reason to apologize because I have not seen the reason why the person who is sitting here will apologize on behalf of people that were outside.”
