Fubara Vows to Conduct LG Polls Oct 5

•APP describes Justice Lifu’s order as judicial rascality

Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has declared that the Rivers State local government election scheduled to hold on October 5, 2024, would hold and conducted as the most peaceful and credible elections in the state.

Fubara said he had already received briefing from the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, (RSIEC) on court order mandating the agency to conduct the elections in the state, with the full support of security agencies, assuring that the state electoral umpire would be given the necessary supports to conduct the elections successfully.

Fubara disclosed this while addressing journalists at Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt, shortly after the inspection of the Trans-Kalabari Road project, which he described as a legacy project of his administration.

He said: “Our election will hold on October 5. I am aware that RSIEC told me they already have an order mandating them to conduct the election on 5th and the security agencies should support them.

“So, I think with that order the election will hold. I might not be a lawyer, but there is something they call first in hand and since they have the first in hand, we will give them all the necessary support for that election to be conducted and it will be one of the best elections ever conducted in Rivers State, free and fair in this State.”

The governor also visited the office of the RSIEC and charged the Electoral body to ensure the conduct of a free, fair and credible local government elections in the state and report any infraction by anybody, saying he was prepared to defend the state as the chief Security officer.

Meanwhile, the National Chairman of the Action Peoples Party (APP), Uchenna Nnadi, has described the judgement delivered by Justice Peter Lifu on the conduct of the Rivers State local government council elections fixed for Saturday, October 5, 2024, as judicial rascality.

The APP national chairman, who made the expression while addressing journalists on Monday in Port Harcourt, reactedto the judgement delivered by Justice Lifu in Abuja.

Justice Lifu of a Federal High Court in Abuja, had yesterday, set aside all the processes by the Rivers State Government, restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from releasing the voter’s register used in the conduct of the 2023 general election to the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) to conduct the the October 5, LG polls.

Justice Lifu, also in a judgment restrained the Inspector General of Police and the Department of State Services (DSS) from providing security for the said election.

But reacting, Nnadi stated that the judge was contradicting himself and described the judgement as shocking.