Africa Press-Nigeria:
National Commissioner and Chairman of Information and Voters Education Committee of the Independent Electoral Commission, Festus Okoye, has said there is no alternative to the peaceful conduct of the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states.
He said failure to do so will leave both states with constitutional logjam that would be difficult to resolve.
At a sensitisation forum for the media in Benin, Okoye noted that political parties must eschew violence, use of intemperate, inflammatory language designed to incite violence.
He said, “Political parties and all the critical stakeholders in the electoral process must see the conduct of these elections as a national project that must be executed in satrict compliance with all the safety protocols.
“There is no alternative to the peaceful conduct of these elections as the alternative will leave the people of the two states with a constitutional logjam that may be difficult to resolve. Political parties must eschew violence. Political Parties and their candidates must eschew the use of intemperate, inflammatory and base language designed to inflame passions or incite violence.
