WAIT FOR OFFICIAL RESULTS – INEC CHAIRMAN TELLS NIGERIANS AND MEDIA HOUSES
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu har urged Nigerians to wait for official results of the Presidential and National Assembly elections to be announced by the Commission.
Yakubu said this today as he declared the National Collation Centre open in Abuja and set the ground rules for the proceedings.
He appealed to political parties and the media to draw their figures only from the figures released by INEC as the only body constitutionally responsible for releasing official figures for elections.
He also announced that National Collation Centre will be reopened by 6pm today.
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