The electoral body accused the chieftain of the Labour Party of holding an "illegal" press conference within its facility.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos State has accused a Labour Party chieftain, Prof Pat Utomi, of “invading” its office in the Oshodi/Isolo Local Government Area and holding an illegal press conference inside its conference room.

INEC Resident Electoral Officer (REC) in the state, Olusegun Agbaje, on Channels Television’s The 2023 Verdict programme on Thursday, said he didn’t expect such action from a senior Nigerian like Utomi.

“Today in Lagos, Pat Utomi did what we did not expect a senior Nigerian to do. He virtually invaded our office at Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area with some people we didn’t know and they held an “illegal” press conference inside our conference room at Oshodi.

“Pat Utomi is a senior person, we didn’t expect that from him, that is an invasion. We informed the police accordingly and the DSS about this invasion. It is uncalled for, it is an act of intolerance on his part, what he did today would have led to violence,” Agbaje said.

Asked if Utomi’s grievances were addressed, Agbaje said if the LP chieftain had contacted him, he would have offered an explanation to anything he wanted to know, adding that one of the issues in the area is that[b] a lot of people that migrated from the South-East want to vote in Lagos but didn’t transfer their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).[/b]

The resident commissioner said the only challenge in Lagos is that many people instead of transferring their PVCs from their previous locations, rather did double registrations.

According to him, people with double registrations can’t be issued a second PVC because it is assumed that they already have one.

On the number of PVCs distributed in Lagos so far, Agbaje said that a total of 5,734,559 have been distributed from the old PVCs registered in 2011, 2015 and 2019 while 835,732 PVCs are uncollected.

On the newly registered PVCs of 2021 and 2022, he said the state has received the total of 1.6 million out of which 899,026 have been collected so far and 168,000 uncollected.

Overall, Agbaje said the state received a total of 7.6 million out of which 6.6 million PVCs have been collected with one million PVCs left, amounting to 87% of collected PVCs so far in the state.

SadiqBabaSani:
4 million votes for Obi in ln Lagos

Housing:
The REC should make a police report and press for charges.

These guys doesn't respect boundaries.

AcuraZDX:


Shut up and tell INEC to release people's PVC'S.

You think you can hoard people's PVC and still want them to keep quite.

Especially the corrupt officials at Oshodi LGA.

fredoooooo:
That Awo ibadan bi eni n wo oyo obama clone in a bad way i.never mean good for the nation. He dis nothingwhwn he was in rhe syatem , now running helter and skelter to deceive gullible people

Confirmedzombie:


Release people PVC for double registration.

Ipob are indeed ewu

Goodson15:


Why will inec tell people that their PVC is not FOUND where is it kept?

AcuraZDX:

INEC to release people's PVC'S.



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FreeStuffsNG:
O ma şe o. So Prof Utomi just realized that his social media warriors and ipob terrorists banking on the politics of lies, insults, ignorance, envy, bigotry and hatred do not have pvcs and are plainly ignorant of a simple process on how to move their PVC.

The time he should have used to educate them was used to insult other patriotic Nigerians not buying their dummy on ethnicity and religious bigotry politics. smh

Prof Utomi should be arrested now or after the election and prosecuted to serve as deterrent to others, then FG and INEC should report him to EU and USA for invading INEC office to incite violence in Lagos. He is not above the law.

...a lot of people that migrated from the South-East want to vote in Lagos but didn’t transfer their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs)

FreeStuffsNG:
His eyes don clear. They have shishi votes in Oshodi Isolo and it shocked him! Just wasted time and resources.

They spent the whole time insulting others including Soludo when he warned them against nsobu nsobu politics

Mystic216:

Are you high on some cheap expired drvgs?

FreeStuffsNG:

Their pvcs are in your Igboland . They probably flee the violence , bloodletting and relentless carnage in attacks on INEC offices in Igboland including Anambra, to enjoy safety and progress in Tinubu's Lagos.



You obviously did not get it. They should actually be prosecuted for double registration but INEC is magnanimous enough to still want to release pvcs to them. Their original pvcs from their first registration is in Igboland and already added to the registered voters in SE so their attempt to vote in Lagos is impossible.

They will go back to Igboland to collect their pvcs and vote in SE. Lagos votes are sealed by the indigenous Yoruba and will be delivered to Asiwaju Tinubu at the polls on 25th February across all the 20 LGAs.

I told you all that you can not embarrass Asiwaju Tinubu in Lagos or any SW state. It is going to be a landslide for Asiwaju Tinubu not because he is a Yoruba but because he earned it on merit by dint of his excellence in public service.

Oshodi Isolo is not even the swing LGA in Lagos but the hope of lp is already dashed there.

sreamsense:


These people just like faking and fradulent life style and they will always be the one to cry foul if it were to be another sets of people from hausa or yorubas. This is really Nzogbu, Nzogbu politics; they will be the one to shout rigging/shithole, but they will always be the cause of illegality. How can you migrate in numbers from south east to Lagos to vote without transferring your PVCs from East to West? Why migration? Oh, it may either be because of Ipob/esn effect or rigging sense. Thank, God rigging is not possible in this kind of election because it will be found out sooner or later. Go and ask Adeleke vs Oyetola in Osun.

You can't eat your cake and still have it, is either obi supporters migrate in numbers to Lagos to votes and create vacuum in their respective states, why other parties win their states aside LP or get low votes in the east for obi or still cast your vote in Lagos to try your luck if you can win one local government by mistake. Whatever option that is choosen, LP will end up labouring in vain due to lack of structure.

Reinaldo:
No head, no tail. Another case of hallucination from APC. Mental illness plenty for that party sha

AcuraZDX:


Shut up and tell INEC to release people's PVC'S.

You think you can hoard people's PVC and still want them to keep quite.

Especially the corrupt officials at Oshodi LGA.

FreeStuffsNG:

Their pvcs are in your Igboland . They probably flee the violence , bloodletting and relentless carnage in attacks on INEC offices in Igboland including Anambra, to enjoy safety and progress in Tinubu's Lagos.



You obviously did not get it. They should actually be prosecuted for double registration but INEC is magnanimous enough to still want to release pvcs to them. Their original pvcs from their first registration is in Igboland and already added to the registered voters in SE so their attempt to vote in Lagos is impossible.

They will go back to Igboland to collect their pvcs and vote in SE. Lagos votes are sealed by the indigenous Yoruba and will be delivered to Asiwaju Tinubu at the polls on 25th February across all the 20 LGAs.

I told you all that you can not embarrass Asiwaju Tinubu in Lagos or any SW state. It is going to be a landslide for Asiwaju Tinubu not because he is a Yoruba but because he earned it on merit by dint of his excellence in public service.

Oshodi Isolo is not even the swing LGA in Lagos but the hope of lp is already dashed there.

FreeStuffsNG:

Their pvcs are in your Igboland . They probably flee the violence , bloodletting and relentless carnage in attacks on INEC offices in Igboland including Anambra, to enjoy safety and progress in Tinubu's Lagos.



You obviously did not get it. They should actually be prosecuted for double registration but INEC is magnanimous enough to still want to release pvcs to them. Their original pvcs from their first registration is in Igboland and already added to the registered voters in SE so their attempt to vote in Lagos is impossible.

They will go back to Igboland to collect their pvcs and vote in SE. Lagos votes are sealed by the indigenous Yoruba and will be delivered to Asiwaju Tinubu at the polls on 25th February across all the 20 LGAs.

I told you all that you can not embarrass Asiwaju Tinubu in Lagos or any SW state. It is going to be a landslide for Asiwaju Tinubu not because he is a Yoruba but because he earned it on merit by dint of his excellence in public service.

Oshodi Isolo is not even the swing LGA in Lagos but the hope of lp is already dashed there.