Imo State government over its attempt to organize LGA elections on
January 30th 2015.
After several postponements, the Imo State Independent Electoral
Commission, ISIEC announced and release guidelines for conduct of the
primaries.
No sooner than the regulation was released that the PDP and other
opposition parties kicked against it.
According to the new PDP spokesman, Hon Kizito Onuoha, the decision to
undertake the exercise is ultra vires since the matter is still in
court and next hearing was fixed for the same next year.
"The Imo state government is attempting to run foul of the law again
by mentioning conduct of LGA elections in Imo. The matter is still in
court and it would amount to contempt and disregard to rule of law and
course of justice for the pending suit to be ignored when judgment has
not been delivered", Onuoha stated.
The proposed local government election in Imo is now generating a lot
of ripples in the state.
Barely 24 hours after a release of the Imo State Independent Electoral
Commission (ISIEC) guidelines for the proposed election, the
opposition group have began to raise eyebrows and are now threatening
a boycott.
According to the aggrieved group mainly PDP chieftains, the release
has sparked a lot of controversies in Imo because Governor Rochas
Okorocha and his Rescue Mission team want to use tricks to consolidate
power, "Okorocha has secretly positioned his men to succeed them
selves as Executive chairmen of LGAs" Bar Akolisa declared.
The chairman of ISIEC Hon Bar. Amaechi Nwoha has insisted that the
election to produce the council executives must surely take place on
January 31st 2015, adding that the LGA elections is a rescheduled one,
therefore it is mandatory and compulsory that every party should
partake in the election as no excuse will be accepted again from any
party.
--Trumpeta
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