The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said it will not yield to the call of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to redeploy the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Anugbum Onuoha.

DAILY POST recalls that Onuoha has been a subject of controversy over his relationship with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mr Nyesom Wike.

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and Wike have not been in good terms after Wike supported his second term bid when he defected to the PDP.

The Governor and the national leadership of the PDP have expressed fears that Onuoha would influence the election to favour the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The PDP chairman in Edo State, Anthony Aziegbemhin, had submitted a formal protest letter to INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, demanding Onuoha’s immediate redeployment.

The letter read in part, “The ties between these two are too close to ignore as they share familiarities and are also close associates.

“The said Edo REC is a cousin to the Minister of the FCT, Mr. Wike. He also served as a former Commissioner and Special Adviser for Lands, Survey, and Housing to Mr Wike during his tenure as Rivers governor.”

Responding, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, emphatically said that the REC would not be redeployed, urging the PDP to focus on the process of the election rather than Onuoha.

“The REC for Edo State will not be redeployed. The governorship election will be conducted on September 21, 2024 in 4,519 polling units, not in the REC’s office.

“In the same manner, polling unit results will be declared by the respective Presiding Officers after the voting, ballot sorting and counting processes, in the presence of accredited party agents and other stakeholders.”

alanto:
Obaseki is indeed an ingrate. I haven't contributed any comment to this Edo election. But this is the same Wike that stuck is head out for you in 2020. What has changed? Wike is still in PDP, Obaseki is still in PDP but Obaseki has betrayed anybody betrayable in the last 4 years, so much that APC, OshiomLole have been vindicated.

What was he thinking in the last for years?

Wike is the kind of friend you keep really close because he will do anything for his own.

vanitybutiwanti:
Obaseki fought wike because wike told him to carry legacy PDP members along, same reason Fubara fought wike because wike told fubara to carry members of the political family along. Wike never asked any of them for cash, they are all ingrates, same obaseki went to wikes house twice this year to convince him to work for them.

If you were wike, will you yield?

Is wike not a human being with emotions and blood coursing through his veins?

alanto:

I have any pity for Obaseki, if a person like him doesn't fail, him and others won't learn

vanitybutiwanti:
I care less about the election(anybody can win)especially because I'm not from Edo state but I despise ingrates.

This same obaseki has gone to lobby wike because of the REC but since he didn't have his way, he instructed the state party chairman to write an open letter to INEC requesting that the REC be removed, if wike had agreed to work with him, would he have instructed his lapdog to write a letter to INEC?

alanto:

I do not have any pity for Obaseki, if a person like him doesn't fail, him and others won't learn

DevilsEqual:


Wike is second strongest man in Nigeria, next to the President

So, hin wife na Judge, the cousin na REC, Wow


He is what those guys think Pity giriigooory is

alanto:
Obaseki is indeed an ingrate. I haven't contributed any comment to this Edo election. But this is the same Wike that stuck is head out for you in 2020. What has changed? Wike is still in PDP, Obaseki is still in PDP but Obaseki has betrayed anybody betrayable in the last 4 years, so much that APC, OshiomLole have been vindicated.

What was he thinking in the last for years?

Wike is the kind of friend you keep really close because he will do anything for his own.

vanitybutiwanti:
I care less about the election(anybody can win)especially because I'm not from Edo state but I despise ingrates.

This same obaseki has gone to lobby wike because of the REC but since he didn't have his way, he instructed the state party chairman to write an open letter to INEC requesting that the REC be removed, if wike had agreed to work with him, would he have instructed his lapdog to write a letter to INEC?

JoeyNaza:


The kind of "Power" that thrills the black undeveloped African is the same that kills him.

See how this one is happy and smiling that a politician is connected enough to subvert democratic processes as if it is for his own immediate direct benefit.
That is how you guys hailed a particular politician because of "African Power of Corruption", today he don floor una for ground but shame no gree una speak out. Continue.