INEC: No Going Back on Edo, Ondo Guber Polls via thisdaylive
Despite the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the country which has shown no sign of abating, the Independent National Electoral Commission has again said that there is no going back on the conduct of both Edo and Ondo States gubernatorial elections in order to avert constitutional crisis.
He stated categorically that it was not the electoral body that was insisting that the governorship elections in the two state be conducted but it is the constitution. He said: “Section 178 says that it is the function of INEC to fix the date of elections, but Subsection 2 says that an election to the office of the governor shall be conducted not earlier than 150 days and not lesser than 30 days to the expiration of the tenure of the last holder of the office.
“The truth of the matter is that the country is faced with a situation of conflicting rights. The rights of the Nigerian people to elect their representative and also their rights to life, not to go to a polling units and die. So, what we are doing, if you look at the first day of June 2020, we are going to officially release the timetable and the schedule of activities for these two elections,” he said.
“The landscape of Nigeria has, the electoral landscape has changed, most of the things will be done virtually now. The implication is that it is not within the mandate, it is not within the contemplation of the constitution for the critical stakeholders to postpone the election, because this election has been constitutionally circumscribe. No individual can movie the date of this election, except with the mandate of the constitutionally circumscribed period.
Asked what measures are being put in place by the commission to ensure security during the election selections, especially considering the growing tension between the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress , Adams Oshimhole and Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, he said the commission has in place an Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security to appraise the security situation in the two states where we have governorship elections and to interface with the health...
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