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We Have No Contract With MC Oluomo, NURTW — INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission has rubbished claims that the commission contracted the National Union of Road Transport Workers, led by Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, to transport some election materials.
Making a clarification on the issue, INEC’s National Commissioner for Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye, added that the commission is not also in talks with theNational Association of Road Transport Owners as rumoured.
Okoye, however, stated that INEC is in talks with individual drivers, and not the union.
He said, “For the 2023 general election, this commission is going to hire at least 138,000 vehicles and we have hired vehicles in the past. This commission is going to hire at least 4000 boats; we have hired boats in the past. And we’re going to hire over 88,000 motorcycles.
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“Now, the commission enters into individual contracts with the vehicle owners. We do not enter into any form of contract with the union. What we have with the National Union of Road Transport Workers, and with the National Association of Road Transport Owners, and with the Marine Unions, is what we call a Memorandum of Understanding.
“We don’t enter into contract with them. So, the issue of the name of an individual being mentioned, to the effect that the individual is going to provide all the vehicles the commission needs for the purposes of this election is just mischief, it’s just mischievous. We have contracts with individual drivers. What the union does for us is that we enter into an MoU with them, and sometimes in a situation where an individual driver absconds, they help us locate the driver. In a situation where a driver does not turn up on time, they know their members, they help us find out why the individual has not turned up on time.”
