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Group Calls For Postponement Of Election In Southern Ijaw LGA of Bayelsa
Posted On Dec 06 2015
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The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations, CSO, under the auspices of the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, yesterday has called for the postponement of elections in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, LGA, and several polling units in the just concluded Bayelsa State governorship election.
The PDP won in Kolokuma/Opokuma, Yenagoa, Sagbama, and Ekeremo local government areas, while the APC has been able to secure only Brass, the local government of its governorship candidate.
The deployment of 10,000 NSDC personnel will compliment the 14,000 police officers promised by the Inspector General of the Police, Solomon Arase.
He said, “It would be recalled that PDP had prior to this criminal raised the alarm over plans by the NDDC to award phony contracts to fund Sylva’s election”.
The Sylva/Igiri Campaign Organisation (SICO), which made the allegation on Sunday, said Dickson stormed the place at about 11pm Saturday night and threatened to “deal seriously” with agents of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Werinipre Seibarugu, former Deputy Governor and Mr. Fortune Panebi, State Publicity Secretary of the APC.
The APC has also asked for the cancellation of the result alleging rigging by the PDP.
He also said that two commissioners of police, two brigade commanders, five battalion commanders and deputy commander of the Civil Defence Corps were deployed in Southern Ijaw to ensure the safety of lives and property during the election. “This is clearly an act of desperation by the governor, who is the candidate of the PDP in the election”, Egba said.
INEC declared the November 21 poll inconclusive while the sudden death of APC candidate Abubakar Audu, who seemed poised to win, led to legal challenges and wrangling about who will replace him.
Voters go to the polls to elect a new governor in the home state of Nigeria’s former president Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday, with tensions high and the country’s electoral body under scrutiny.
