“Although, certain political groups effortlessly tried to falsely label INEC, security agencies and Central Bank in an attempt to find one way or the other to scuttle the process, the maturity exhibited by citizens was enough to send their plans to the cleaners.
“I am also studying those wild allegations for possibilities of seeking court redress because it is not only politician that can always take INEC to court.
“INEC and its staff also
have a name to protect; we are not going to tolerate reckless allegations that can cast aspersion on our democracy and electoral process. We are moving towards a direction when nobody will get away with any unsubstantiated allegation that rubs off on the credibility of an election.
“While we had teething logistics challenge during the presidential election, we overcame all of those challenges during the governorship election and became the first state that had the all the 4,145 polling locations to open before 8am on the election day.
“The only snag which I did not know the main reason was the voters apathy which saw less than half a million voters coming out to vote out of the 1.9 million registered voters and the 1.7 million voters with PVCs."
■ Words of INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner for Enugu State, Dr. Emeka Ononamadu.
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