Rerun: NGO Gives INEC 60 Days Ultimatum

A non-governmental
organisation in Rivers State, the Ethics and Conducts Group has issued the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state a sixty day ultimatum to conduct a fresh election in the eight local government areas where March 19 rerun election was cancelled in the state or face legal action.
The group gave the condition in a five-point communiqué signed by its chairman, Hon Bipelle Omoron last Wednesday in Port Harcourt.
In the communique, the Group said they had no option than to challenge INEC in court, if it continued to delay the conduct of the rerun election in the areas where elections were cancelled.
It described the cancellation of the March 19, rerun election in the eight local governments as INEC’s game plan to continue to siphon money from government.
They said INEC would be held responsible for any further loss of life in the state, saying that Rivers State was peaceful until the March 19, rerun election in the state.
It is said Rivers people would have forgotten the wounds inflicted on them from the last rerun election, if the exercise was no cancelled in the state.
The group called on politicians not to see politics as a do-or-die affair, noting that politicians who see themselves as enemies today can be friends in the next political season.
It advised security agencies to detach security lives and properties from politics, regretting that the entire security system in the state have been politicized by security agencies.