2023: Accept INEC results, Gambari tells candidates

Gambari said, “I am impressed with the professionalism of the INEC officials, the orderliness and smoothness with which the process is going.”

By Dele Moses, Ilorin

Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, has urged the candidates vying for various offices to accept the results as verified by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) while using legal ways to lay their grievances.

Gambari, who spoke with reporters in Ilorin, Kwara State capital on Saturday after casting his vote, urged Nigerians to vote for the candidates who would meet their desired expectations.

He commended the electoral umpire on the peaceful conduct of the presidential and National Assembly elections.

“I am impressed with the professionalism of the INEC officials, the orderliness and smoothness with which the process is going,” said Gambari.

“I am delighted to perform my civic duty which is to cast my vote for the candidate of my choice in my own constituency.

“The electorate should vote for the candidates that they feel meet their aspirations for a better life; vote wisely and decide who is best to meet your expectations.

“The contesting candidates should accept the result as announced by INEC which is the only constitutionally empowered authority to announce the result and not social media results.

“Those who have any grievances should go through the constitutional and legal process.”

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There was peace and orderliness at polling units in most parts of Kwara.

The BVAS did not initially function properly at Baale polling unit in Ajase ward 1 but the problem was later resolved and people who had waited patiently for the rectification began to vote peacefully thereafter.

There was late arrival of election materials at Idii-Igba polling unit in Ilorin where the state governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, voted but voting went peacefully after the arrival of the materials.

Also, a foremost traditional ruler in Kwara, the Olupo of Ajase-Ipo, Oba Ismail Bolaji Alebiosu, hailed the peaceful manner the elections went in his domain and urged politicians to ensure there was no breach of peace after the announcement of results.

The traditional ruler urged the contestants who may lose not to see themselves as losers but that they have had the chance to win at some other time.

He enjoined those who may win to fulfil their campaign promises and not disappoint the electorate who voted for them.