{"id":99994,"date":"2023-11-06T20:31:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T19:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/imo-guber-remove-imo-rec-sylvia-agu-to-avert-crisis-pdp-tells-inec"},"modified":"2023-11-06T22:54:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T21:54:37","slug":"imo-guber-remove-imo-rec-sylvia-agu-to-avert-crisis-pdp-tells-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/imo-guber-remove-imo-rec-sylvia-agu-to-avert-crisis-pdp-tells-inec","title":{"rendered":"Imo Guber: Remove Imo REC, Sylvia Agu to avert crisis \u2013 PDP tells INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has charged the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to immediately redeploy the Imo State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof. Sylvia Agu.<\/p>\n

PDP said Yakubu should forestall an impending crisis in the Imo State election by heeding the insistent outcry, petitions and protests by the people of Imo State, political parties and civil society organizations for the removal of Agu.<\/p>\n

The party claimed that Agu was allegedly being compromised to manipulate the November 11 governorship elections in Imo State in favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n

In a statement issued on Monday by Debo Ologunagba, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, the party asked the INEC Chairman to take a cue from the Inspector General of Police who redeployed the Commissioners of Police in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi States in response to the outcry and demands.<\/p>\n

\u201cProf. Yakubu should forestall an impending crisis in the Imo State election by heeding the insistent outcry, petitions and protests by the people of Imo State, Political Parties, Civil Society Organizations as well as Ohaneze Youth Council for the removal of the Prof. Sylvia Agu who has allegedly, been compromised by the APC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people of Imo State cannot accept any electoral process with Prof. Agu as REC, given her reported role in the brazen manipulation of the 2023 National and House of Assembly elections in Imo State in favour of the APC, which is still in the public domain.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe redeployment of Sylvia Agu out of Imo State is therefore the only way to restore confidence in the electoral process, guarantee a credible election and avert a crisis in the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is especially so as there are very disturbing allegations in the public space of clandestine meetings between Prof. Agu and certain APC agents said to have been facilitated by her close relative, who is an APC national officer, ahead of the November 11, 2023 governorship election in Imo State.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe PDP calls on the INEC Chairman to note that the integrity of an election principally lies in the confidence of the electorate in the electoral process,\u201d part of the statement read.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has charged the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to immediately redeploy the Imo State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof. Sylvia Agu. 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