The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has charged the State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) to ensure the prompt conduct of local government elections in the state in accordance with the 1999 Constitution.
The charge was given by the caretaker committee chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Chief Tony Okocha after a meeting between the RSIEC and the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC), in the state, at the commission’s office in Port Harcourt.
Okocha confirmed that the APC would participate fully in the next local government elections in the state, expressing confidence that his party would win in all 23 LGAs and 319 wards of the state.
He urged Governor Siminalayi Fubara and security agencies to create an enabling environment for a seamless local government elections after the tenure of the current chairmen and councillors in the state.
He also urged the RSIEC to notify political parties about the timetable for the elections within the stipulated time.
Earlier in his address to the IPAC members, the RSIEC chairman, Justice Adolphus Enebeli (retd) commended them for their unity of purpose.
He assured of the commission’s commitment to ensure that parties receive all necessary information about the conduct of the elections in the state.
The tenure of the serving local government chairmen and councilors will expire in June and following the recent eight-point Presidential Peace Proclamation endorsed by the Governor Fubara, council elections must hold to allow a new set of elected chairmen and councillors to run the 23 local council areas of the state.
The peace proclamation disallows the governor from setting up caretaker committees for the local council areas.
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