{"id":256694,"date":"2023-04-05T14:43:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T12:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/i-did-not-say-independent-national-electoral-commission-inec-deliberately-withheld-uploading-election-results--lai-mohammed?lang=en"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:43:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T12:43:36","slug":"i-did-not-say-independent-national-electoral-commission-inec-deliberately-withheld-uploading-election-results-lai-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/i-did-not-say-independent-national-electoral-commission-inec-deliberately-withheld-uploading-election-results-lai-mohammed\/","title":{"rendered":"I did not say Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) \u201cdeliberately withheld uploading\u201d election results \u2013 Lai Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says, “it is irresponsible and reckless” the online report credited to him that INEC deliberately withheld the real-time upload of presidential election results from polling units.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Minister made the clarification on Wednesday in Washington DC, while reacting to the report published in some online platforms.<\/p>\n

He said the report was a deliberate falsehood, twisted by the online platforms to serve their selfish interest.<\/p>\n

“This is irresponsible and reckless journalism.”<\/p>\n

“The truth of the matter is that, one of the major problems in the polity today, is a section of the media.”<\/p>\n

“These are people who cannot just belief that the Labour Party or the opposition did not win the election.”<\/p>\n

“They convinced themselves that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will loose the election.”<\/p>\n

“As a result of this there is nothing you want to say or do, they will find a way to twist it and make it what they want it to look like,” he said.<\/p>\n

The minister said his statement was unambiguous and it was wrong for any media platform to have twisted it, to serve its own interest.<\/p>\n

” What I said was that, during the election, there was a technical glitch and as a result of this and for INEC to protect the data, it suspended uploading of the results.”<\/p>\n

“INEC immediately set up a technical team to look into what went wrong and simultaneously floated another platform,” he said.<\/p>\n

Mohammed added: “Of course,Premium Times has its own agenda .<\/p>\n

“They inserted the word “deliberately” and omitted the phrase that it was in order to protect the sanctity of the data.<\/p>\n

“They make it to look like INEC deliberately refused to upload the results’.<\/p>\n

Mohammed reiterated that the publication was a most irresponsible way to practice journalism.<\/p>\n

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