Again, INEC under pressure to postponed polls
Executive, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.
• Group legitimizes shift
• APGA will take an interest in decision
Precisely eight days to the rescheduled governorship surveys, some political gatherings are again pushing for a movement in the race.
The Guardian learnt that four political gatherings had kept in touch with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), asking that the surveys be moved to October 8.
Among the gatherings is the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), whose applicant, Osaro Onaiwu had said he would lean toward a movement to either October 1 or 8.
Others incorporated the African Congress of Democrats (ACD), the People for Democratic Change (PDC), the Alliance Congress Party of Nigeria (APPN) and KOWA.
The INEC representative, Mrs. Priscillia Imoudu-Sule affirmed the advancement to The Guardian yesterday.
She said: "We got a letter from four political gatherings requesting a shift, yet that is not our obligation. So we have sent the letter to the home office in Abuja, while we proceed with our planning for the race altered for September 28th."
It was learnt that some different gatherings, which whined of deficient assets needed the date conveyed in reverse to September 24.
In the interim, an expert Obaseki bunch, The Green Movement, has restated that the late capture of 54 suspected activists has legitimized the race's delay.
The gathering, in a discharge by its facilitator Mr. Felix Akeme, said the joint activity by the security operators to defer the race "really spared the state from bloodbath."
Expressing, "Interminable watchfulness is the cost of freedom," the gathering asked people in general to be careful and report suspicious development to the law implementation specialists.
It entrusted the security operators to "be up to their sacred duties."
Notwithstanding, in the midst of the crisp requires a movement, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) yesterday consoled its individuals that it would take part in the rescheduled surveys on September 28 date.
APGA's Director of Publicity, Mr. Ifeanacho Oguejiofor, talked in a phone meeting with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
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