THE COMPOSITION OF THE PROPOSED RIVERS STATE ELECTORAL INDEPENDENT
COMMISSION-OUR POSITION
Our attention has being drawn to the recent nomination of the 5 Man
Management Committee of the proposed Rivers State Independent
Electoral Commission by the Rivers State Government that is expected
to conduct the Local Government Councils election in Rivers State and
we will like to observe as follows.
1. We members of Action Congress and Tonye Princewill Campaign
Organization in Rivers State herby rejects unequivocally the
lopsidedness appointment of only card carrying members of Peoples
Democratic Party's members into this sensitive Commission that should
be seen to be unbiased umpire and made up of with impeccable
characters expected to organise a fraud less Local Government
Council's election accetable to the participating political parties in
the state. These PDP card carrying members so nominated whose sole
mission is to return only PDP Chairmen to power are: - Dr David O.
Ogbonnaya, Kenneth Amaehule, Kombo Johnson, Emmanuel Dappa and Mike
Wialaghi.
2. The list of some of the nominees apart from being card carrying
members of PDP are people of questionable character that are not
qualified to occupy such a sensitive position in the State Electoral
Commission
3. The nomination apart from being done with ulterior motives could
not be allowed to follow the due process of being read in the State
House of Assembly at least three times before being adopted and
accepted by the House as the laws stipulates if not why the haste in
adopting the list without due process.
Let us reiterate that the Federal Government in recognition of the
fraud that was called an election in the country has constituted a
body to review the country's electoral system in order to prevent the
charade and sham that was called an election in the country
particularly in Rivers State. In this regard we wish to state that
apart from waiting for this review exercise to be concluded, we will
like to urge the Rivers State Government not only to withdraw the list
immediately but suspend any conduct of any election in the Local
Government Councils until the legitimacy of the present administration
is determined by the Election Tribunal currently sitting in the State
over its purported election in an obvious established fraudulent
election that makes it lacks the powers to conduct any credible
election in the State considering the fact that the present government
in the State was a product of the most rigged election in the country
that is being used as a referent point all over the world.
We must commend and congratulate Hon Chidi Lloyd Member of the Rivers
State House representing Emouha LGA though a member of PDP has stood
aside from the evil and embarrassment PDP has constituted itself in
the State by disassociate himself from an illegal passage of a list
that ought to be read in the House at least three times before
passage.
In conclusions, should the State Government still go ahead in this
illegality we as a law-abiding group will be left with no option than
institute a legal procedure to stop once again this illegality against
our people in Rivers State.
Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze
Media Consultant,
Tonye Princewill Campaign Organisation
(TPCO), Rivers State
TONYE PRINCEWILL CAMAPIGN ORGANISATION
Ubima Close, Rumuibekwe, Housing Estate, opposite
Shell RA, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State
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