Imminent Electoral Robbery In Imo State Of Nigeria

Intersociety-Nigeria: Letter to Ambassadors

1 May 2011

Your Excellencies,

Imminent Electoral Robbery In Imo State Of Nigeria : Pressures From Your Excellencies Are Urgently Needed For The Sacred Wish Of The People Of The State Not To Be Criminally Subverted Allegedly By The Nigerian Authorities

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International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law is a civil liberties and democracy advocacy group, based in the Southeast, Nigeria, which had since 2008 contributed immensely towards democracy building in Nigeria including the Southeast geopolitical zone.

As Your Excellencies are aware, evil and criminal plans are thickened on daily basis to subvert the sacred electoral wish of the people of Imo State, Southeast, Nigeria .  On April 26, 2011, governorship and State House of Assembly polls were conducted in 24 out of the country’s 36 States including Imo State. But the events that unfolded in the State at the end of the exercise are a clear replication of Prof. Maurice Iwu’s inglorious epoch in INEC, during which the sacred mandate freely made and given by Nigeria ’s gallant electorate was subverted with patent impunity. For clearer picture of what transpired during the said poll in the State, we have enclosed copies of our letter to the Chairman of Nigeria’s INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, dated April 28, 2011, and our public statement, issued and dated April 30,2011, in response to the INEC’s controversial directive that a “supplementary” election be held in four Local Government Areas and in an electoral ward called “Mbaitolu”, “ Ngo/Okpala”, ”Ohaji/Egbema” and “Oguta” LGAs as well as “Orji” Ward in Owerri North LGA of the State.

The criminal act of subverting the people’s sacred mandate had been a steady practice in Imo State since 2003, but most glaring before now was that of 2007 when patterns similar to the present situations were applied to subvert the true electoral wish of the people...