Political parties inspect election materials in Enugu
The leadership of four political parties presenting
candidates in today’s elections in Enugu State have inspected both
sensitive and non-sensitive materials received from the national
headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
ahead of the polls.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the
state, Josiah Uwazuruonye disclosed this in a telephone interview with
NEXT yesterday.
He listed the parties as the People’s Democratic
Party (PDP), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Peoples for
Democratic Change (PDC) and the Labour Party (LP).
Mr Uwazuruonye said that the leadership of the
parties were invited to monitor the distribution of the materials to
the local government areas, but that only four of them showed up.
He explained that the commission took the decision in
order to avoid complaints and troubles, which could mar the smooth
conduct of the polls.
Corps members not afraid
The REC said that the commission is ready for the
governorship and state assembly election, adding that “by now, I
believe that the commission’s officials in the 17 local government
areas would have commenced their own part of the work.” On the
preparedness of the members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)
for the polls, the REC said there are no indications that the corps
members engaged in Enugu State are afraid that what befell their
colleagues in some parts of the north, will happen to them.
Mr Uwazuruonye assured that adequate security measures have been put in place to ensure their safety during the polls.
There are about seven governorship candidates in
today’s election. The governorship candidates are the incumbent,
Sullivan Chime of the PDP, Okey Ezea of LP, Dan Shere of PDC and Osita
Okechukwu of CPC.
Others are Valentine Nnaedozie of the Action Congress of Nigeria
(ACN), Obinna Obiegue of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Nnamdi
Anigbo of Change Advocacy Party (CAP), Robert Eze of the All Nigeria
Peoples Party (ANPP), Chinoyelum Ojiejemba of the National Conscience
Party (NCP) and Anya Ibekwe of NPP.
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