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| Election Officials |
THE Independent National
Electoral Commssion, INEC, has said that it will not return to Rivers until the
state is conducive to conduct elections. The INEC spoke as the heavy shootings
that characterised weekend’s federal and some state legislative re-run
elections in Rivers, yesterday, petered out and became a verbal warfare among
stakeholders in the polls as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and All
Progressives Congress, APC, traded blames over the issue.
Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, INEC’s Director of Voter Education and Publicity, revealed that INEC had scheduled a meeting for tomorrow to review the situation in Rivers, adding: “I don’t want to pre-empt anything ahead of the Wednesday meeting.”
Citing widespread irregularities, the commission annulled the election in eight local government areas and also suspended collation of results after declaring few results. In an interview in Abuja with The Cable, yesterday, Osaze-Uzzi also said the commission would investigate the allegations levelled against it during the election. He said the decision on when the remaining results of the election would announced would be taken at the meeting.