Rivers: APC requests Gov Fubara to conduct LGA election

Siminalayi Fubara, the state governor of Rivers State, has received a call from Tony Okocha, the chairman of the APC’s Caretaker Committee, urging her to hold local government elections in accordance with the constitution.

Okocha made the request while speaking to reporters during the Inter Party Advisory Committee’s (IPAC) visit to the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) on Thursday. He pointed out that the current LGA chairmen’s terms are about to expire in a few months.

According to him, the APC is prepared to run in the LGA elections.

“I felt that I should also take this opportunity to call on the Rivers State Government to add to the calls that we have made for an election to be conducted,” stated Okocha. “This is because the constitution permits an election to be held following a specific amount of time.”

“And in a few months, the current council members’ terms will come to an end. Naturally, procedures must be followed because the law stipulates that parties must have a reasonable amount of time to notify one another about the impending election.

We would also like to take this opportunity to inform the governor that things are not going as usual.

The usage of caretaker arrangements in local governments has actually been declared by the Supreme Court to be an anomaly.

We will not be boycotting elections this time around; it was a mistake that was made in the past and it won’t happen again.

Adolphus Enebeli, a retired justice of the Rivers State High Court, is leading the RSIEC, and he expressed trust in it.