The Labour Party,  PDP and several political parties on Monday pulled out of the 2023 General Elections alleging that  he Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extensively breached its own guidelines and compromised the electoral process.


The Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council Director-General, Dr Akin Osuntokun at a World Press Conference declared that they have lost confidence in the results being collated and announced at the National Collation Centre.


The LP proposed that INEC should cancel the entire process, follow it's own guidelines or completely cancel the entire election.


Simultaneously, as the Labour Party Press Conference was in progress, Senator Dino Melaye, representing the PDP Presidential Campaign Council at the National Collation Centre led several party representatives including LP, ADC, APP plus others to stage a walkout from the Collation Centre.


Melaye had since the beginning of the exercise urged INEC to show the results uploaded to BVAS so that the political parties can interrogate it and compare with collated results being announced, but INEC Chairman, Prof Yakubu Mahmoud refused to oblige him.


Melaye, leading other party agents outside the Collation Centre told journalists that INEC has rigged the 2023 General Elections and the political parties are dissociating themselves from it, and would proceed to the next stage of their protest.


Melaye alleged that INEC have refused to show Nigerians the results uploaded to BVAS because they know it is at variance with the results being collated and announced.


The former Senator argued that provisions of the 2022 Electoral Act provided that results from the polling unit should be transmitted to INEC server, but INEC has refused to show the uploaded results.


"It is doctored results that came from the State Collation Centres that are being announced.It is either the BVAS were not used or have been compromised. We cannot accept what they are presenting to us", he fumed.