Complete Rerun Polls, Anglican Church Tells INEC

Nyemoni Iriawo Ogbo of Abonnema Akulga Rivers State in a group photograph with some elderly women, during their visit and presentation of food items, cloth to Home for the Elderly at Harbur Road on Monday.

The Diocese of Niger Delta
(Anglican Commission) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to expedite actions in completing all re-run elections in Nigeria especially in Rivers State towards adding value to the electoral process and national development.
The Diocese, in a communiqué at the end of its 2016 Synod with the theme “Come And Let Us Build,” also tasked the INEC to transparent in its efforts to rebuild the broken political walls of the nation.
In the communiqué signed by the Diocese Bishop and President of Synod, Rt Rev Ralph Cornelius Ebirien, the Synod Secretary, Ven A. C. Abbey-Kalio and the Diocesan  Communicator, Dame Lizzy Wilfred Fombo, the Diocese said that no efforts should  be spared by all and sundry in putting Nigeria on the path of political and socio-economic viability.
The Synod, however, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to heed the call by Nigerians to urgently convene an economic summit to be addressed by economic experts to halt the economy from further depression.
It further advocated for the diversification of the nation’s economy through the development of the agricultural and the solid mineral sectors.
While condemning the high level of insecurity in the nation posed by senseless killings by Boko Haram, Hausa-Fulani herdsmen, political violence, kidnappings etc, the Synod urged government to take decisive steps to halt such dastardly acts.
Beyond that, it frowned at the prolonged fuel scarcity in the land and implored the federal government to put in motion a very effective machinery towards halting the trend and eliminating the suffering and pains faced by the masses.
But the Synod was full of praises for Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike for fast-tracking the infrastructural development of the state and appealed to the governor to revisit the Bille/Bonny/Nembe jetty project, the Andoni/Ogoni/Opobo unity road and the trans-Kalabari road projects.
It also made case for government at all levels to ensure the appointment of capable men and women of integrity into positions of trust even as it challenged those in vantage positions to promote and seek the welfare and good of the people.

Samuel Eleonu