By Haruna Usman, Birnin Kebbi
The Kebbi State Independent Election Commission, KESIEC on Thursday said the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) withdrawal from the local government election scheduled to hold on the 31st of August this year in the state is not justifiable.
Addressing journalists in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday, the electoral agency’s Commissioner 4, in charge of publicity, Muhammed Kaura debunked the allegations by the PDP that the KESIEC Chairman is a card-carrying member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.
The commissioner said the chairman and other appointed members of the electoral agency have been conducting the local government elections in the state since 2007, 2009 and they are not card-carrying members of the APC.
It would be recalled that the PDP on Wednesday announced its withdrawal from the Kebbi State Local Government Election on the ground that the electoral agency’s chairman is a card-carrying member of the APC.
The commissioner insisted that “There is no truth in their allegations. We assure that whoever emerges winner in the election will be declared so.
“We have resolved to remain non-partisan in the election and we assure all the participants that we will conduct free and fair elections”, he said.
He added that to conduct a free and fair local government elections in the state, KESIEC will recruit and train adhoc staff for the 3,743 polling units where elections is expected to be held.
