By Bode Olagoke
Abuja
Some stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia state have called for the sack of the Resident Electoral Commissioner before the March 5 senatorial election is conducted in the state.
A member of the APC Board of Trustees (BoT), Dr Sam Nkire, who led a delegation of Abia stakeholders to the APC national secretariat, yesterday in Abuja said they had lost confidence in the capabilities of INEC to conduct a free and fair rerun election in Abia state.
It would be recalled that the Court of Appeal had nullified the elections of Sen. Mao Ohuabunwa and Rep. Stanley Ohajiruka and ordered a rerun of the elections.
Responding to questions from newsmen after the meeting with the leadership of APC, Nkire said: “If what happened in the past then nobody will be comfortable but we want a change.
“We have no confidence in INEC Abia and we are calling for the removal for the present officials of INEC in Abia state. We want an election whose results would be a true result of what transpires in the field.”
Nkire said for the avoidance of doubt and to quell ongoing rumours, there was just one national ex-officio member, Chief Nduka Anyanwu, representing Abia and the entire South-east.
