The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, has kicked over the alleged failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission to upload results on its portal as they are announced.
The LP Chairman spoke on Saturday as votes were being counted in the Presidential and National Assembly elections.
According to Abure, officials of the in connivance with the security agencies are also playing games with the outcome of the results in some parts of Lagos and Delta States.
In Lagos, he said there are claims that the BVAS suddenly developed fault.
He said information from the party’s field men has it that in places like Agege, Kosofe, Oshodi-Isolo, Surulere and Ibeju Lekki, amongst others, where results show that Labour Party won convincingly, the INEC officials claim that the BVAS suddenly developed fault.
He said: “Information reaching me has it that in Lagos, they have refused to upload the results for the presidential election, they have uploaded that of the Senate and House of Representatives, but for the presidential, they have refused.
“And they are using the police to drive our agents and supporters out of the place.
“And they said that they have firm instructions from INEC headquarters not to upload.
“For example, in Kosofe, they put the collation centre in a Local Government Area Headquarters.
“The place is surrounded by APC (All Progressives Congress) and people are afraid of their life.
“They are not uploading.
“They said that they have been given instruction to insist that the BVAS is faulty.
“And most of the places we won, they have refused to upload.
“As I speak, APC officials are in Yaba office of INEC negotiating with the officials.
“What I have said now is happening in Agege, Kosofe, Oshodi-Isolo, Surulere, we have this situation all over.
“In Ibeju Lekki, our local government chairman who attempted to stop them was arrested by the police.”
Abure said that a similar situation is playing out across the collation centres in Delta State.
He, however, called on INEC to ensure that only genuine and verifiable results generated from the various polling units should be uploaded.
He also called on the police to help this democracy to work and should resist the lure by the politicians to mar the gains of democracy by refusing to be used to deny Nigerians their choice of leaders.