The Bayelsa chapter of Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has called for the redeployment of all Independence National Electoral Commission (INEC) staff in the state ahead of the November 2, governorship poll.
Mr Eneyi Zidougha, the state’s chairman of the council disclosed this in an exclusive interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Tuesday in Yenogoa.
Zidougha said the action would ensure free, fair and credible governorship poll in the state.
“It is our role as an advisory council to also advise INEC that this time around, for us to have a free, fair and credible governorship election without fraud, the commission needs to redeploy those staff who have been in the system for too long.
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“If it failed to do so, that means we are going back to Sodom. Just like when God asked the family of Loth to leave Sodom, and the wife who looked back and turned to salt, we all know what happened,” he said.
Zidougha alleged that INEC officials in the state have become too familiar that they have turned into politicians themselves and no longer umpires in the election.
“We have written a letter to INEC National Chairman on our request for their redeployment.
“So if INEC wants us to get to the promised land, it must grant the request we have put forward,” he said.
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