By Halimah Olamide
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has debunked a circulating news claiming that an employee of the commission was caught with pre-filled result sheets for the Enugu re-run election.
This was disclosed in a statement by the commission via an X post on Saturday evening, stating that it is a fake news, and the individual is unknown to the commission.
In the trending post, it was headlined, “Voters Beat INEC Staff To Pulp for Coming with Pre-Filled Result Sheets in Enugu”, with the picture of a beaten man attached to it.
According to the news, voters who trooped out to exercise their franchise beat the individual to pulp on discovering that he came with pre-filled result sheets to the polling unit
“Our attention has been drawn to some fake narratives circulating on the social media that a certain employee of the Commission was caught in Enugu State with a pre-filled result sheet for the rerun election held today. “However, the said individual is not an employee of INEC. He is unknown to the Commission.
“The public should disregard the report.” The statement urged. However, there are several comments on this from many concerned Nigerians opposing the statement from the commission. @iamProjectP queried,
“He is unknown to INEC but he is conducting an election on behalf of INEC? “What kind of lie is this? Though you people at INEC are fake. Rogue organization.” An accountability group, @Good_citizins, wrote, @Sire_Sammi added, “That was a very brief investigation. Did you even investigate to know how he got hold of an authentic INEC result sheet? Don’t push Nigerians to resort to jungle justice to curb your disenfranchisement antics.
We believe opposite of what you say because you’ve proven to turn things upside down.” @Royal_Deacon said, “As expected. Now you are disowning your own. Well, he was well served. If he had succeeded, you would have taken his results and declared them.” “Okay we agree. Now, who is the authentic INEC official you sent to conduit the election in that polling centre? What’s his name? Why wasn’t he at his duty post? Who gave the “imposter” pre filled INEC results sheets? Hope you know he had an ID card? Are you not ashamed?” @JusticeChancel1 asked.