Election Day Update from the Desk of INTERSOCIETY

Stipulate 18years and above as the voting age. Prof Jega and his INEC, having been severally notified in writing of this by our group; still went ahead, aiding and abetting the crime in defiance of the law.

3. The bomb blast that erupted close to a polling unit in Enugu is carefully designed by radical northern elements to scare away voters of the Southeast zone in order to trim down the votes and electoral strongholds of President Jonathan Goodluck, who is of Ijaw ethnic minority, but with Igbo Southeast strongholds. In Aba and other Southeastern parts, dangerous rumors have rented the air telling voters to stay indoors to avoid bomb blasts.

4. INEC and their materials arrived most parts of Southeast particularly Onitsha South, Onitsha North, Ogbaru, Aguata, Idemmili North LGAs in Anambra State, which arrived 12.noon. In many places, there are failure or absence of card readers

5. Senior police officers of Northern Muslim extraction posted in the Southeast appear to be on ethno-religious mission. At the 33 Police Station manned by CSP A.A. Adamu, he magisterially impounded all vehicles and seized their owners' PVCs; ordering them detained till election ends. It took fierce intervention of our own Comrade Justus Ijeoma before the DPO was saved from mob action; forcing him to rescind his ignoble action. It is feared that similar despicable actions may be repeating themselves in other Southeast places manned by the Northern Muslim police officers.

Signed:
Emeka Umeagbalasi
Board Chair, International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law

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