…Regrets INEC’s Bias Over Zakari

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State has said that the appointment of Mrs Amina Zakari as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Head of National Collation Centre for the 2019 general election was an indication that the electoral umpire was biased.
Rivers State Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Darlington Orji , who stated this during an interview in Port Harcourt, weekend said, Zakari will not be fair as a relative of President Muhammadu Buhari and called on the national leadership of INEC to replace her with somebody else. Orji further said that her removal from that position will convince Nigerians that the electoral umpire was prepared to conduct a free and fair election this year.
The State PDP spokesman stated that the party had complained of the activities of Mrs Zakari during the 2015 re-run election in Rivers State, adding that the appointment has shown INEC’s bias ahead of the forth-coming general elections.
He said, “The appointment of Amina Zakari as the Head of INEC’s Collation Centre for the 2019 general election is a clear indication that the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government is not ready to conduct a free and fair election.
“It is an indication that they (INEC) is already biased before the results would be announced.I want to call on the INEC National Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and the APC government to do what is right.
“If they want Nigerians to have trust that this election will be credible, free and fair other than what happened in Ekiti and Osun States, they need to rescind their decision of appointing Amina Zakari as the Chairperson of INEC committee on National Collation Centre 2019 general election otherwise there is no need believing in the leadership of INEC,” Orji said.

Dennis Naku