….Reiterates commitment to free, fair and credible polls
By Aliyu Usman, Birnin Kebbi
The Kebbi State Independent Election Commission, KIESEC on Thursday said the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) withdrawal from the local government election scheduled to hold on the 31 of August this year in the state is not justifiable.
While addressing journalists in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday, the electoral agency’s Commissioner 4, in charge of publicity, Muhammed Kaura debunked the allegations by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the KIESEC Chairman is a card carrying member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.
The KIESEC commissioner said the chairman and other appointed members of the electoral agency have been conducting the local government elections in the state since 2007, 2009 and they are not card carrying members of the APC.
It would be recalled that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday announced it’s withdrawal from the Kebbi State Local Government Election on the ground that the electoral agency’s chairman is a card carrying member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.
The commissioner insisted that “There is no truth in their allegations “We assured that whoever emerge winner in the election will be declared so.
“We have resolved to remain non partisan in the election and we assured all the participants that we will conduct free and fair elections”, he said.
He added that to conduct a free and fair local government elections in the state, KIESEC will recruit and train adhoc staff for the 3,743 polling units where elections is expected to be held.
