CPC Cautions INEC Over Party’s Candidates

National Chairman, Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Prince Tony Momoh has cautioned INEC not to interfere in the selection of political party candidates.

Prince Momoh who made the call recently in Abuja in an interview with newsmen said the candidate the party endorses must be the candidate that must stand the election and if there are any problems, that party must bear the responsibility for those problems not INEC.

“Candidate that the party presents is the one that binds INEC not any other and INEC should have no say in how those candidates are generated,” he said.

The national chairman told newsmen that the fact that a person had majority of votes was only a pointer to choice, not the prove that the person would stand the election.

“When INEC wants to be preoccupied with how people who stand election are generated, then they should also be responsible for their disqualification, “he said.

He said that the prove that someone would stand election did not end with the person who won the majority in the primary.

“Majority is just not enough, what if after that majority you discover that that person has forged his certificates? “It will also include proof that the documentation the person is bringing are true and unquestionable,” he said.

Momoh, who said that the court would disqualify unqualified person, added that the party itself would not stand the election.

“When INEC wants to impose people because of what happened at the primary, then they should bear responsibility for that person for being disqualified,” he noted.

According to him, the role of INEC is the registration of voters, counting the votes and ensuring the votes count.