BENIN—EDO State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, in Benin City, said it had rejected the list of ad hoc staff the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, plans to use to conduct the February 16 presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.
The party insisted that the directive was very clear and
explicit, saying that university vice-chancellors were asked to provide a
list of their members of staff, who would be used as ad hoc staff. A
statement in Benin, yesterday, by the state Publicity Secretary of the
party, Chris Nehikhare, accused INEC of planning to use the list of All
Progressives Congress, APC card-carrying members and operatives as
University of Benin staff allegedly said to have been provided by the
Vice Chancellor.
He said: “The list, we are informed, was written
by state government and handed over to the Vice Chancellor for
transmission to INEC. This purported INEC ad hoc staff list must be
completely discarded as it is a recipe for chaos and poses a great
danger to our nascent democracy. “We reject it and condemn the
politicalisation of the “employment” of APC members as ad hoc staff to
manage the election process. We call on the Vice Chancellor of the
University of Benin, Prof Faraday Orumwense not to allow himself to be
used. “He must do the right thing by withdrawing the list he was
prevailed upon to submit, and hand over the one made up of genuine staff
of University of Benin. “The forthcoming election must not only be
free, fair and transparent, it must also be seen to be so.”
Source:- Vanguardngr
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