IPAC, CUPP accuse Bayelsa REC of setting aside INEC guidelines

BAYELSA, Rivers, Nigeria – Inter Party Advisory Council and Coalition of United Political Parties have accused the Bayelsa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Pastor Monday Tom Udoh òf working contrary to the guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

The Chairman of CUPP, Chief Tari Edwin and his IPAC Counterpart, Eneyi Zidougha, alleged in a statement on Wednesday that the INEC REC in Bayelsa had demonstrated a brazen violation of the electoral guidelines in the country.

The duo, in the statement they jointly signed called on the Chairman of the Indepedent National Electoral to redeploy the REC from the state for acting contrary to the stipulations of the electoral act. Edwin and Zidougha said that the REC had demonstrated lack of integrity, capacity and courage to demonstrate the requisite impartiality in the electoral contest in Bayelsa.

The politicians who said that they no longer have faith in the impartiality of Udoh to preside over the elections in Bayelsa called for his immediate redeployment from the state. They stressed that only a deeply compromised REC would accept results from places like Nembe Bassambiri where his own workers were abducted and taken away with electoral material to non-designated location for thumb-printing.

They added that only a REC devoid of reputation would accept concocted results without the use of the voters cards and the card readers as was the case in some of the results accepted and presented to INEC by the REC.

“We the members of the Coalition òf United Political Parties and m indeed the society.” The statement read in part.