Imo Guber: Coalition of Young Professionals Urges INEC, Police, DSS to Ensure Credible Election

*Endorses Senator Anyanwu

Chuks Okocha in Abuja

A group of young professionals from different works of life from Imo state have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Police and the Department of State Security (DSS) to ensure that the November 11 governorship election in the state is peaceful, credible and fair.

The young professionals who endorsed the PDP governorship candidate, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, urged INEC to ensure that the technical glitches that characterized the last general election was nipped in the bud.

Addressing a press conference Tuesday in Abuja, Chukwuemeka Emmanuel,
National coordinator, of the Coalition of Imo Young Professional (CIYP), appealed to President Bola Tinubu to use his good office as President to ensure a credible, free and fair governorship election on November 11.

According the national coordinator of CIYP, “Today, we wish to first
and foremost, call on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR, the father of modern progressive politics in Nigeria, to please use his good office as the President of the Federal Republic, to enforce free and fair elections in Imo State come November 2023.

“In the same vein, we wish
to call on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), the Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS) and all other national Security’s chiefs that will deploy their personnel for electoral day duties during Imo 2023, to
patriotically bear true allegiance to the Constitution of the Federal Republic by esteeming democratic integrity as a non-negotiable value far above all other possible considerations on Imo 2023.”

The group called on the people of Imo State to begin to make plans on how to legitimately use the power of the people to ensure freedom and fairness during Imo 2023 gubernatorial election.

“As the wise adage goes, ‘to fail to plan, is to plan to fail.’ As another adage says, “Power can never be given, it can only be taken.”, we will do well to coalesce and take power for themselves through the ballot box.

The group announced the PDP governorship candidate. Senator Samuel Anyanwu as the candidate of choice.

According to CIYP national coordinator “the issues favoring the emergence of Senator Samdaddy as the next Governor of Imo State are many. First, there is the issue of the need for the restoration of security of lives and properties to Imo State.

“Second, there is the issue of the need to enforce the equitable distribution of power amidst Imo State’s senatorial districts in accordance with the well-established principle of power rotation
unhindered by a concocted alien right of first refusal being espoused by the Imo Charter of Equity. Third, there is the issue of accessibility to the grassroots; which is clearly a strong suite for Senator Samdaddy.

“Fourth, there is the issue of faithfulness in public office; which again favors Senator Anyanwu.

“To round-off this Press Conference, the CIYP hereby calls on all well￾meaning Nigerians, to please deploy all legitimate means and powers”, he explained.