IPAC, CUPP ACCUSE BAYELSA REC OF SETTING ASIDE INEC GUIDELINES ...SAYS HE HAS DISCARDED USE OF CARD READER IN ELECTION

Inter Party Advisory Council and Coalition of United Political Parties have accused the Bayelsa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Pastor Monday Tom Udoh òf working contrary to the guidelines of the Indepedent National Electoral Commission.

The Chairman of CUPP, Chief Tari Edwin and his IPAC Counterpart, Eneyi Zidougha, alleged in a statement on Wednesday that the INEC REC in Bayelsa had demonstrated a brazen violation of the electoral guidelines in the country.

The duo, in the statement they jointly signed called on the Chairman of the Indepedent National Electoral to redeploy the REC from the state for acting contrary to the stipulations of the electoral act.

 Edwin and Zidougha said that the REC had demonstrated lack of integrity, capacity and courage to demonstrate the requisite impartiality in the electoral contest in Bayelsa.

The politicians who said that they no longer have faith in the impartiality of  Udoh to preside over the elections in Bayelsa called for his immediate redeployment from the state.

They stressed that only a deeply compromised REC would accept results from places like Nembe Bassambiri where his own workers were abducted and taken away with electoral material to non-designated location for thumb-printing.

They added that only a REC devoid of reputation would accept concocted results without the use of the voters cards and the card readers as was the case in some of the results accepted and presented to INEC by the REC.

“We the members of the Coalition òf United Political Parties and the Interparty Advisory Council are appalled by the lack of capacity demonstrated by the Bayelsa State Resident Electoral Commissioner,  Pastor Monday Tom Udoh.

We are yet to recover from the shock that Mr. Udoh accepted concocted results in an  election that did not take place in Nembe Bassambiri.

The REC went further to announce that 63 card readers were missing in some local government areas where he has already produced misleading results to the commission.

“Based on the dwindling trust we have for the REC, we hereby call on the Indepedent National Electoral Commission to redeploy the REC to where his action will not do so much damage to the commission and indeed the society.” The statement read in part.