Women storm INEC headquarters, fault military involvement in elections vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
The women who marched to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Abuja, on the auspices of Save Democracy Women, also called on the electoral umpire to demonstrate a high level of non-partisanship in Saturday’s elections.
The protest follows on the heels of a similar one engineered by the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Tuesday, accusing INEC of violating electoral laws during the Presidential and National Assembly elections. “In 2015, there were court judgements in Abuja, Sokoto and Lagos – two federal high court judgements and one Court of Appeal judgement – against the involvement of the military that the President had no powers to involve the military in the elections.
They mentioned incidences of military personnel deployment and intimidation by political thugs in various states that allegedly led to the loss of lives in Rivers, Lagos, Kogi, Delta, Bayelsa among others.
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