15th April, 2011
The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has described the conduct of last Saturday’s national assembly election in most states as a travesty of free and fair electoral exercise and maintained that despite the prevalence of electoral flaws in most parts of the country, it still believes INEC can do a better job in the coming polls.
The party says that emerging facts about distortion of electoral conduct in many states are disturbing and creates the fear that INEC has been hijacked by the ruling PDP but warns that if the process continues manifesting signs of distortions, the INEC leadership should be blamed for another botched effort at holding free and fair elections.
In a release in Lagos, signed by the party’s Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the ACN, Joe Igbokwe, the party says it is disturbed by widespread reports from various states which suggest that various state governments connived with INEC Resident Electoral Commissioners to perpetrate serious electoral vices and manipulate the outcome of the national assembly election in their state to favour the PDP.
While it says it is aligning with the posi
