COALITION of Democracy and Human Rights organizations in the South East region has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, security agencies and politicians to ensure that the November 11, 2023 governorship election in Imo State is credible, free and fair.
Entitled “November 11, 2023, Imo Governorship Poll: Is INEC truly organizing free, fair, secured and Credible Election or planning to harvest nd write results for a favoured candidate”, the group said it has already written to the Commission and heads of major security agencies, including the National Security Adviser, and charged them to strictly caution their operatives to be neutral in the Imo election.
“Instead, we are easily convincing and it may likely be correct to say that INEC is planning to harvest and write results for the ruling party in the State”. “But it is not out of place for us to express deep fears that another round of result harvesting and writing is cooking in Imo. Nigerians and other international democracy watchers will not be surprised to see the allocation of 500,000 to 1 million votes as total valid and lawful votes scored by the favoured winner in a landslide.
“This projection was arrived at after putting into consideration the fears; chaos and bloodletting that have gripped the state “More than half of the state’s 27 Local Government Areas are deeply affected and 65% or 1.8 million of the state’s 2.4m PVC holders registered voting population have been forced out of their voting areas; leaving the state with only 600,000 eligible voters, out of which 300,000 may maximally vote”. te since the January 2021 security crisis in the state.