The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos State has said it is working with park managers in the state for smooth logistics during the 2023 general election.
It clarified that it is not with the former chairman of the defunct National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Lagos, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo.
The commission was reacting to a letter allegedly written to it by the ex-NURTW boss.
In the letter, MC Oluomo was said to have requested from the Lagos INEC the responsibility of distributing electoral materials on election day across the state, according to a report by Nigerian Tribune.
Reacting to the letter, the Lagos State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Olusegun Agbaje, said the commission was more concerned with issues of motor parks administration in the state for the effective delivery of its election duties and not MC Oluomo.
Agbaje, who said this at a meeting with representatives of security agencies including the military under the auspices of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security at the Commission’s secretariat in Lagos on Tuesday, stated that INEC would not be working with the disbanded NURTW and Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), saying it would amount to going against the law.
He said,
“On the issue of MC Oluomo, the commission is not concerned with Oluomo. We are concerned with the issue of motor park administration in Lagos.
“For the past two years, the Lagos State government has banned the operations of the NURTW and RTEAN in the state. They had problems and the state government banned them.
“So we are left with Lagos State Park and Garages and the National Association of Road Transport Owners.â€
