INEC Needs 5,000 Vehicles For 2023 Elections, Plans To Work With MC Oluomo-led Parks Committee

INEC needs over 5,000 vehicles for 2023 elections, electoral body plans to work with MC Oluomo-led Parks Committee.

Says partnership with Park Management Committee follows the ban on NURTW and RTEAN in Lagos State.

INEC notes that it is not dealing with APC chieftain, MC Oluomo, but with State park managers to get the needed vehicles.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will work with the Lagos State Parks Management Committee for the distribution of election materials and personnel in the state.

The Lagos State Parks Management Committee is led by Musiliu Akinsanya, a Lagos All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, popularly known as MC Oluomo.

INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Lagos State, Olusegun Agbaje, stated this on Tuesday, February 7th during the inter-agency consultative committee on election security (ICCES) meeting at the commission’s office in Lagos.

Speaking during the inter-agency consultative committee on election security (ICCES) meeting at the commission’s office on Tuesday February 7th, INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Lagos State, Olusegun Agbaje said:

“There is a ban on the NURTW and RTEAN, we are only left with the Park Management system and NARTO (National Association of Road Transport Owners) and we are already working with NARTO.

“NARTO is not even able to meet up with 40 per cent of our vehicle requirements for this election. The commission in Lagos State does not have any option than to use the park management system.

“We are not dealing with Oluomo, we are dealing with the park managers. Individual people that have vehicles are those we are going to use.”

“So, it will be against the law if INEC has to continue to work with NURTW or any other group that is proscribed in the state”.

Agbaje also disclosed that only the Park Committee can provide the over 5,000 vehicles the body needed to carry its officials and election materials.

“We need over 5,000 vehicles for this election, including trucks, buses and so on to carry our people and materials for the elections. There is no other way we can go.

“We cannot go to other states and bring vehicles here, it is not allowed by law. The only way we can operate is through the park management system.

“These are the only people that can give us any type of vehicles. In fact, most of the NURTW drivers are working with the park management system.”

“So, I don’t see how this can compromise the election in any way. Our politicians should see the peculiarity in Lagos State. We cannot work with banned NURTW or RTEAN”, he stated.

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