Council poll: APC hails Yobe Governor

Council poll: APC hails Yobe Governor
on january 02, 2014 at 2:30 pm in news
The All Progressive Congress (APC) has hailed Yobe
State Gov. Ibrahim Geidam as well as the entire
people of the state for the peaceful and hitch-free
conduct of the state’s local government election on
Dec. 28th 2013.
In a statement in Lagos, Thursday, by its Interim
National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
the party called on INEC to borrow a leaf from the
Yobe State Independent Electoral Commission on
how to organize elections, having bungled the two
elections conducted by it in Delta and Anambra
recently
The party said it was not only delighted that the APC
swept the polls, but that the election, which was
observed by many NGOs and the chairmen of 15
State Independent Electoral Commissions, among
others, was widely adjudged to have been free, fair
and credible, in addition to witnessing a huge
turnout of voters.
It said coming at a time that INEC and its
paymasters have started flying their kite of shame
of a possible non-conduct of general elections in
the state as well as the two others under a state of
emergency in 2015, the successful local
government polls have shown that the only
impediment to the conduct of elections in the states
is a federal government that has ulterior motives
and one that is mortally afraid of its own shadows,
as well as a conniving INEC that is independent only
in name.
Gov Ibrahim Geidam of Yobe State
The party said it was particularly remarkable that
the people of the state turned out in large numbers,
without a single report of election-related or any
other violence during, immediately before and after
the election, because of the significance of local
government election as the number one barometer
to measure grassroots’ participation in democratic
governance.
”With what has happened in the Yobe local
government election, it stands to reason and logic
that any other election in the state will attract an
equally-massive turnout, if not more, and that the
people of the state are determined to ensure the
survival of democracy and to seize the initiative
from a few die-hard insurgents prancing the state.
”This is why we in the APC believe that Gov.
Geidam deserves every possible accolade he can
get for his courage, strong belief in democracy and
a determined effort to ensure that a few renegades
cannot hijack a whole state. We therefore commend
this quintessential democrat and urge him to
continue with his good works in the state.
”We have no doubt that this trail-blazing effort by
Gov. Geidam will be a source of inspiration to other
states that are under a state of emergency, as well
as to an INEC that could not even successfully
organize an election in one Senatorial District in
Delta.
”We therefore call on the blundering and floundering
INEC to immediately dispatch some of its top
officials to Yobe State to understudy the art of
election conduct, even in an environment that poses
a great challenge. After all, Yobe has shown that the
main reason INEC cannot organize successful polls
is that it sabotages its own elections,” APC said.