The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it would not bow to pressure from political parties who want to assume the role of regulators of its activities.

This comes after the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, who are challenging the outcome of the February 25 Presidential election that produced Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as Nigeria’s president-elect, requested for the commission’s permission to witness the reconfiguration of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines used in the just concluded presidential election.

Speaking further on the matter on Sunday, the INEC Chairman of Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, said the request of Labour Party constitutes a role reversal, as INEC had been created to regulate activities of political parties and not the other way round.

The commission further insisted that it will not surrender its constitutional duties to political parties because of the glitches experienced during the presidential election.