21 out of 42 parties qualify for Ekiti gov’ship

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The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Ekiti State, Prof. Abduganiy Raji, yesterday, said 21 out of the 42 political parties existing in Ekiti State have qualified to participate in the July 14, governorship poll.

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Prof. Raji said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had received correspondences affirming the existence of 42 parties in the state, but that only 21 of them met the requirements of the law to participate in the gubernatorial election. He stated this at a meeting with security chiefs, chairmen of political parties, journalists and critical stakeholders.

Prof. Raji assured that the commission was relying on heavy deployment of information and communication technology gadgets for the conduct of the election, saying this would make it difficult for any staff to manipulate the outcome.

He said he had received a lot of threats from politicians and some elders in the last few days calling him to conduct a free, fair and credible poll or face the consequences.

“Most of these threats were from elders alleging that we were one-sided, but they have forgotten that there are two sides to a coin. If you don’t want INEC to do some things, you too must be cautious. How could a party go and induce INEC staff? This is unacceptable,” he said.

“We will use over 10,000 youth corps members for this election; can all of them be saints? Some will misbehave, but we have to use appropriate ways to deal with them,” he said.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Abdullahi Chafe, assured that security agencies would maintain neutrality by being fair to all parties and then appealed to politicians to show maturity in their campaigns.

Emman Tochi
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Emma Tochi is Naija247news Media Northern Bureau Chief, he's based in FCT Abuja. He overseas the northern operations of this business media

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