The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has reiterated it’s demand for the removal of the again tasked the Imo State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof. Sylvia Agu.
The party has charged the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to immediately redeploy Agu based on the suspicion of compromise to manipulate the November 11, 2023 governorship elections in Imo States in favour of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Debo Ologunagba, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, in a statement in Abuja, also further urged Yakubu to emulate Kayode Egbetokun, the Inspector General of Police, who removed the Commissioner of Police in Imo State in response to the outcry and demands of the people for neutrality in the election in the state.
“Prof. Yakubu should forestall an impending crisis in the Imo State election by heeding the insistent outcry, Petitions and Protests by the people of Imo State, Political Parties, Civil Society Organisations as well as Ohaneze Youth Council for the removal of the Prof. Sylvia Agu who has been allegedly compromised by the APC,” the statement read.
“The people of Imo State cannot accept any electoral process with Prof. Agu as REC, given her reported role in the brazen manipulation of the 2023 National and House of Assembly elections in Imo State in favour of the APC, which is still in the public domain.
“The redeployment of Sylvia Agu out of Imo State is, therefore, the only way to restore confidence in the electoral process, guarantee a credible election and avert crisis in the state.
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“This is especially so as there are very disturbing allegations in the public space of clandestine meetings between Prof. Agu and certain APC agents said to have been facilitated by her close relative, who is an APC national officer, ahead of the November 11, 2023 governorship election in Imo State.”
The PDP said Prof. Sylvia Agu, the party said, has lost the rectitude as Resident Electoral Commissioner, adding that her continued stay in office as Imo REC “is vexatious and a recipe for crisis”.
