INEC Responsible for APC’s Loss of C’River, Party Chieftain Alleges via thisdaylive
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Cross River State and former governorship candidate, Mr. James Ebri, has blamed the Independent National Electoral Commission for the defeat suffered by the party in the state at the 2019 general election.
The APC chieftain, while barring his mind yesterday on the election, lamented that “in less than 12 hours to the opening of polls on February 23, the state REC, Briyai, called a press conference and announced the delisting of APC candidates from the polls. The REC acted in a partisan manner, called a press conference to hand APC opponents tools to use.
“I am talking from even the National Assembly elections where, in less than 12 hours before the polls, the REC came up to show that APC was not going to be part of that, and the law doesn’t not allow you, within 48 hours, to say that a party cannot present candidates; and in any case, that letter, if there was any of such, was supposed to be a silent thing. Even if a court gave an order, you as INEC don’t need to come and authenticate it with a letter that the party doesn’t have candidates.
He also alleged the partial approach of the state REC citing many instances of inconclusive elections that warranted a re-run, “but the REC turned a blind eye, and even accepted some already cancelled results, and cancelled some already documented ones.”
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