IPAC demands redeployment of Bayelsa INEC staff

In order to have a free, fair and credible November 2, 2019, Governorship election, the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to redeploy all its staff in Bayelsa state secretariat.

The chairman of IPAC, Mr. Eneyi Zidougha, said this became necessary because all INEC staff that have served in the past three governorship election have become too familiar with politicians.

He alleged that they have become too familiar that “they have become politicians that they have become politicians themselves and no longer umpires in the election.”

Explaining further, he said members of IPAC suspects that all INEC staff that have served in the State since the inception of democracy in Bayelsa are used as agents to perpetrate electoral fraud during elections.

He said: “we have written a letter to the National Chairman of INEC, to affect our demand of their redeployment. They have comprised to the extent that they are no longer doing what is healthy for our electoral process.

“I don’t want to talk about the monies that have gone into their pockets. They have become too old in the system that they have contributed largely to the underdevelopment of the State.

“Based on this, it is our role as an advisory council to also advise INEC that this time around, for us to have a free, fair and credible governorship election without fraud in Bayelsa State, INEC needs to redeploy those staff that has been in the system for too long.

“If they fail to do so, that means we are going back to Sodom. Just like when God asked the family of Loth to leave Sodom, and the wife who looked back and turned to salt, we all know what happened.

“So if INEC wants us to get to the Promised Land, they must they must grant this request we have put forward before them.” He said.

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