INEC: No elections in Rivers until there is peace

The Independent National Electoral Commssion, INEC, has stated emphatically that it will not return to Rivers State until the state is conducive to conduct elections.

The INEC spoke as the heavy shootings that characterised weekend’s federal and some state legislative re-run elections in Rivers, Monday, petered out and became a verbal warfare among stakeholders in the polls as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and All Progressives Congress, APC, traded blames over the issue. 

We won’t return to Rivers until there is peace – INEC, Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, INEC’s Director of Voter Education and Publicity, revealed that INEC had scheduled a meeting for tomorrow (Wednesday) to review the situation in Rivers, adding: “I don’t want to pre-empt anything ahead of the Wednesday meeting.”