A former governor of Imo, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, has advised the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to earn public trust by
ensuring it declares correct results after elections.
Ohakim gave the advice in a statement he issued after the July 23
rerun legislative election in Imo North Senatorial District in Owerri on
Wednesday.
He alleged that results published after last Saturday election in Imo
North, Isiala Mbano and Oru East state constituencies, was a rape on
the nation’s democracy.
According to him, if things will continue that way, it means that our democracy is under serious threat.
“The idea of discountenancing the results entered on the relevant INEC forms must be checked.
“This poses dangerous threat to our democracy even more than Boko Haram and the Niger Delta Avengers,” he said.
Ohakim called on INEC to fish out and punish those involved in
criminal subversion of the peoples’ will during the July 23 rerun
election in Imo North.
He stressed the need for INEC to engage another set of personnel to
conduct the elections in the 15 booths where supplementary election
would be conducted on July 28.
“It is important that the relevant agencies of government take steps
to do the right things and declare the right candidates, winners, to
avert the consequences of an angry people’’, he said.
Ohakim appealed to INEC, police, army, NYSC, NSCDC, and all other
federal institutions involved in election to ensure that their personnel
involved in elections abide by the rules.
He decried the concealment of collation officials, adding that
covering their identities made them tools in the hands of preferred
candidates.
He further urged INEC to adequately deploy the card readers in all
the polling units, noting that using the machines in some areas while
manual registers were used in others was wrong.
The former governor called on parents, especially those whose wards
were currently performing their national youths service scheme in Imo to
desist from perpetuating any form of electoral malpractices.
“I am calling on NYSC to investigate reported incidents of some
individuals impersonating as corps members, in order to be deployed for
election duties,” he said.
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