Sixteen political gatherings from Rivers State raged the national base camp of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja on Tuesday, requesting the quick evacuation of the state's Resident Electoral Commissioner, Ms. Gesilia Khan.
They said the REC should not be permitted to lead the Saturday governorship and the state House of Assembly races in the state.
They additionally required the evacuation of the Head of Operations at INEC, Mr. Bocco Ekong, for purportedly scheming with the REC to apparatus the decisions for the Peoples Democratic Party.
The political gatherings blamed the REC for scheming with the PDP and its governorship hopeful, Mr. Nyesom Wike, to apparatus the April 11 decisions in the state.
The delegates of the 16 political gatherings that raged the commission additionally marked an appeal, which was tended to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega.
The gatherings are Democratic Peoples Party (Chima Nsirim), All Progressives Grand Alliance (Terry Geoffrey), Peoples Democratic Movement (George Ngbor), Mega Progressive People's Party (Fubara Jaja), Unity Party of Nigeria (Charles Atata), Action Alliance (Keneth Atata) United Democratic Party (Njoku Prince) and the All Progressives Alliance (Allen Nyeche).
Others are Independent Democrats (Charles Omosuku), People for Democratic Change (Tonye Bestow), Allied Congress Party Of Nigeria (Miller Osu), Peoples Party of Nigeria (Ali Oma), Citizens Popular Party(Gift Eynda), Accord Party (Precious Barido), All Progressives Congress (Davis Ikanya), and the Advance Congress of Democrats (Echefukan Nweke).
In their appeal, the pioneers of the oppressed political gatherings alluded to a prior request in which they requested that INEC drop the March 28 presidential and National Assembly races in Rivers State because they were results of bargain by INEC and the PDP.
They recorded 25 transgressions against the REC, which incorporated a charge that she assumed control over the postings of impromptu discretionary staff, enlisted PDP individuals as supervisory directing officers, substituted prepared corps individuals with a rundown of names put together by Wike.
They likewise charged that under her mandate, "Mr. Nyesom Wike managed the resemblance of results at the state assemblage focus despite the fact that she knew full well that Nyesom Wike is not the PDP state specialists. The PDP specialists was Emeka Woke."
They additionally said that the REC and Boco held 14 gatherings with Wike at his home to team up in all the plots to influence the decision for the PDP.
They additionally affirmed that "she encouraged the payment of N15m fix given to Nyesom Wike to every electing officer."
They said, "Whilst we anticipate a formal and last determination of the said March 28 request, we keep in touch with state that Ms. Gesilia Khan, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, was submit gloves with the culprits of the exercises that prompted trading off the respectability of the races as it is clear to all target spectators that without her complicity in the exercises, the subversion of the discretionary methodology would not have been conceivable.
"We are mindful that no affirmation against an open officer ought to be made delicately or for any reason other than as visualized by law, which is the reason we have been meticulous in guaranteeing that the announcements and actualities here displayed are all effectively unquestionable and precise against the individual of the REC such that no dependable political gathering or commission ought to permit the dishonorable circumstance to persevere."
The political parties' supporters, who came in their hundreds, landed at the premises of INEC as ahead of schedule as 7am with bulletins, droning as police framed three-layer blockades to prevent the dissenters from entering the premises.
Be that as it may, the Director of Department of State Service at INEC, Mr. Shettima Ngillada, got a percentage of the pioneers of the dissenting political gatherings and drove them to meet the authority of commission where they were said to have presented their request.
Ngillada, in the wake of rising up out of the meeting with the pioneers of the challenging gatherings and individuals from INEC authority, guaranteed the dissenters that the commission would investigate their request.
Likewise, the Generation of Peace, a care group for the APC governorship applicant in Rivers State, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has required the quick redeployment of Khan.
The gathering, otherwise called GOP, kept up, that there would never be free and reasonable governorship and House of Assembly races in the state if Khan was permitted to oversee the activity.
The representative for the gathering, Mr. Amakiri Amakuro, told columnists in Port Harcourt on Tuesday that the state REC had indicated predisposition against the APC and its governorship hopeful, Peterside.
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