Osun 2022: IPAC Admonishes Electorate To Shun Inducement
Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has urged voters in Osun State to resist all attempts to deceive, intimidate or induce them into compromising their rights to freely elect political leaders of their choice.
The National Chairman of the council, Engr Yabagi Yusuf Sani who spoke during a sensitisation forum on peaceful conduct of Osun gubernatorial election in Osogbo insisted that the election must be guided by conscience, obligations to the advancement of welfare, security, happiness and prosperity of the future generations.
Sani who observed that the signing of peace accord by participants at the July 16 governorship election few hours before the sensitisation programme is a pointer to the fact that all manners of actions that can trigger violence or, compromise the credibility and integrity of the exercise must be avoided.
“All hands must be on deck to ensure that, the 16th of July, 2022 governorship election in Osun state is carried out in an atmosphere of peace and tranquility without the ugly incidents of all forms of violence that include, molestation, intimidation and harassment of people of opposition political parties, voters or, electoral officials.
“The political party leaders and candidates in the election, must resist the temptation, out of desperation, to resort to the deployment of thugs or material and financial inducement of security agents and INEC officials to compromise any stage in the voting process.
“We are also very stridently appealing to the security agencies and their operatives engaged to provide security during the election to embark on their assignment with maximum professional and ethical standards.
He charged the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to give hope to the people of Osun, the rest of the nation and the world at large, adding that the era of daylight robbery of the people’s right to choose their representatives is over in Nigeria.
“To us in IPAC, Osun 2022 is another litmus test to INEC after similar election last month on the 18th of June 2022 in Ekiti on the veracity and integrity of the otherwise, commendable administrative reforms and technological innovations introduced recently by the Commission with the lofty goals of delivering credible and transparently free and fair elections. There is no gainsaying the fact that, INEC cannot afford and must not, fail in the attainment of the noble goals”, Sani posited.
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