Election: Observers call on Int’l Community, FG, others, to investigate attack on colleagues vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
It was recently reported by members of Global Policy Advocate and Leadership Initiative, accredited by INEC as observers, that they were brutally attacked and humiliated by “thugs” at the residence of Senator Ayogu Eze of the All Progressives Congress , when they paid him a visit to verify his alleged boycott of the election.
Reacting to the development, the independent observers, who were represented by their group leaders, namely, Amb. Samuel A. Onoja, Amb. Moses Ebahor, Rtn. Titus A. Alagba, Comr. Chidi Chielo and Hon. Kingsley Muogo, while briefing newsmen on the outcome of last Saturday’s elections in Enugu State, strongly condemned the heinous act “in its entirety”, disclosing that the incident “would have led to the death of our colleagues, who were exercising their legitimate duty”.
They described the governorship and state assembly elections in Enugu State as “very peaceful, free and fair, and highly commendable”, and went further to commend INEC, security agencies and the state government for providing a level playing ground and security “during and after the elections, as there was no issue of violence recorded in any of the polling booths”.
The coalition, which comprised 40 out of the 42 political parties that participated in the governorship election in Enugu State, stated that there was no iota of truth in the allegation, stressing that “INEC performed excellently in the conduct of the election”.According to them, “the allegation by one of the political parties, the United Democratic Party that there were irregularities during the election is not true; it is totally false and baseless.
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