A group, Delta Transparency Initiative (DTI), has thrown its weight behind the decision by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct the re-run election in Delta State on Thursday.
In a statement signed by its facilitator, Franklin Ikomi, the group described calls for the postponement of the polls as not “only callous and mischievous but an affront to the political and judicial process in Nigeria.”
The group, made up of professionals and intellectuals of different social leanings and ideological beliefs, expressed concern over what it described as “lame excuses” that the re-run elections should not be held except a new voter-register is produced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
According to the statement, those calling for postponement have forgotten “so soon that re-run elections were held in Lagos, Anambra and most recently in Ekiti State with the old voter-register. Why should the case of Delta State be treated in isolation?
The group noted that INEC as the umpire established by law to drive the electoral process, should be firm and resolute in its decisions and “not subjected to the whims and caprices of a political party.”
The group argued that since the April polls are around the corner and going by INEC timetable “the DDC machines, trained personnel, law enforcement agents, paraphernalia of the electoral process would be deployed for the exercise.”
The group said, “Delta State is a core PDP State. If elections are conducted a thousand times in Delta State, PDP will record landslide victory a thousand times. With all structures on ground, the Emmanuel Uduaghan/Utuama Joint ticket in Delta State will not only consolidate but replicate victory for the PDP in the re-run elections in Delta State and in the forthcoming presidential elections.”
Source:http://www.vanguardngr.com
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