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Don Abuses Commission On Credible LG Polls
A university teacher, Dr Eugene Nweke, has urged the Ebonyi State?Independent Electoral?Commission to ensure credible?council polls as scheduled on September 28.
Nweke said in Abakaliki on Tuesday that the commission owed the people a duty to conduct?council polls seen to be credible, free and fair.
He advised the electoral body to live above board and? provide level ground to all the candidates and also guard against being manipulated by “political desperados”.
The don further called on the commission to ensure that adequate arrangements and logistics were put in place before the polls.
“You can hardly have a credible election without putting in place adequate preparations and necessary logistics. “My appeal to the commission is to ensure that all arrangements needed to guarantee credible, free and fair elections are made,’’ Nweke said.
He commended the electoral body for embarking on voter education and sensitisation in all the 13 local government areas of the state, saying the exercise was a right step in the right direction.
“The just concluded voter education and sensitisation by the commission is a commendable exercise. “It affirms the commitment and readiness of the electoral body to conduct free, fair and credible election and it is my candid belief that the commission will abide by its promises to the people,’’ he said.
He urged the commission to maintain zero tolerance for electoral malpractice and violence, including rigging, ballot box snatching and multiple thumb printing.
“I urge the commission to be firm in applying the necessary provisions of the amended Ebonyi Local Government Electoral Law in dealing with electoral offenders. “The era of committing electoral fraud with impunity is over and the people’s votes must count,’’ he added.
Nweke, who is?dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences in the Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, also advised the political parties to ensure that internal democracy prevailed in the nomination of their flag bearers for the election.
He urged the commission to monitor and supervise party primaries in line with the extant electoral law.
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