2015: INEC Commissioners Pledge Free, Fair Elections

Some resident electoral
commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have pledged their collective resolve to ensure free and fair election in 2015.
They gave the assurance in separate interviews with our correspondent in Port Harcourt, recently.
The commissioners said that the commission  was putting necessary mechanism in place to ensure a crisis-free general election  next year.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner for Rivers, Mr Aniedi  Ikoiwak , urged political parties to cooperate with INEC to  avoid recurrence of the 2011 election crises in the country.
“INEC is ready for the forthcoming elections, we are doing our best in putting up every infrastructure to make sure we take care of some lapses.
“The 2015 election time-table is timely, though criticised by some parties; I advise political parties to accept the time-table as it was duly drafted in line with electoral law.
“We had a stakeholders meeting with various political parties and also held a debate by the commissioners in the commission before the time-table was drafted.”
The INEC’s National Commissioner in charge of Lagos, Mrs Telma Eremiren, urged the electorates to take advantage of the continuous registration of voters.
She said the issuance of a bio-metric registration card by INEC would correct most of the anomalies experienced in past elections.
Eremiren said the commission would ensure that adequate voter education was conducted in the rural areas to guide the electorates.