CSOs, Rights groups protest, call for removal of Rivers REC vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
An electoral official looks at documents at the state headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on March 10, 2019. – Nigeria’s election authorities announced the suspension of activities in volatile opposition-held Rivers State on March 10 citing violence and threats to its staff, as tensions rise in the wake of closely-watched regional elections.
The protesters stormed the Aba-Port Harcourt express road with placard bearing: ‘A Partisan REC is a Disaster to Democracy,’ ‘A Partisan Umpire is Recipe for Anarchy,’ ‘Effanga has Failed Rivers State,’ ‘INEC, Please Conclude the Election for the Sake of Peace’. Omenazu, noted that Effanga has shown bias by failing to announce result of election that the collation process has been concluded.He urged the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, to remove and prosecute the REC in the state for violating the electoral process.
Omenazu noted that it was wrong for the INEC to gather votes of Rivers people and refuse to announce same, adding that the electorates in the state are waiting to hear the result announced.
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