Chief Timipre Sylva, the governorship candidate of
the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the coming December 5 poll in Bayelsa
State, has accused the nation electoral body, Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC, of partisanship.
Disclosing this on Friday in a statement by his campaign
outfit, the Sylva-Igiri Campaign Organisation, said a senior officer of the
Independent National Electoral Commission was working for the Peoples
Democratic, PDP, in the state.
Sylva said, “We have been inundated with calls and reports
that a particular senior member of the commission in the state headquarters is
a PDP agent. This is because of the role the ranking official played in the
last Presidential, National Assembly and House of Assembly elections, working
closely with appointees of Governor Seriake Dickson.
“While our campaign organisation is irrevocably committed to
ensuring peaceful and credible poll, the electoral body must also purge some of
its staff and personnel who are believed to be showing sympathy to the ruling
party in the state.”
The former Bayelsa State Governor called on the nations
electoral body to stick to the laid down rules in the accreditation of election
monitors and observers for the governorship election
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