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RERUN ELECTION: TMG storms Bauchi, advises INEC to avoid previous mistakes
The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure a successful conduct of today’s supplementary elections in affected States.
Elections have been scheduled to hold in Kano, Bauchi, Imo, Plateau, Sokoto, Kogi, Benue, Ebonyi and Lagos States after elections in some parts of the states were declared inconclusive.
TMG in a statement on Friday by its Chairperson, Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, recommended that INEC ensure persons indicted during the last election did not participate in the election.
Akiyode-Afolabi also advised INEC to ensure voters were not denied their voting rights
She said, While the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) noted the obvious issues and documented irregularities observed during the last governorship elections and the criticisms that followed across the country, we expect that INEC would discharge its duty without fear or favor during the supplementary elections.
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‘’INEC must ensure that the mistakes inherent in the earlier conducted governorship elections in the affected states are not repeated as we also call on all political parties to refrain from any actions that will further overheat the polity or jeopardize the exercise.
‘’The only way to preclude electoral irregularities is for all stakeholders to synergize and together keep an eye of the entire process.
“Security agencies, particularly the police must be reminded that their ultimate responsibility and loyalty is to the people; therefore, they must conduct themselves in a manner that will not in any way compromise the sanctity of the elections.
”As people, we must understand that nothing can be achieved in an atmosphere of violence and lawlessness; we must all work together to prevent any future violence.”
Akiyode-Afolabi urged voters to defy intimidation and come out en mass to vote.
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