A frontline opposition celebration within the nation, the Motion Folks’s Celebration (APP), has joined the Rivers State Native Authorities Council elections slated for October 5, 2024.
The Rivers State Impartial Electoral Fee (RSIEC) had final Monday introduced October 5, 2024, because the date for the conduct of native authorities space elections to elect new chairmen and councillors within the state.
Barely one week after, the APP, in an announcement signed by its Deputy Publicity Secretary, Emeka Uwazurike, stated it was poised for the train because it earlier disclosed that the celebration can be totally collaborating within the election.
Uwazurike stated as a celebration which is aware of youths and ladies inclusion and supportive of their participation within the political course of, it was going to concern free nomination kinds to younger and feminine aspirants, who can be looking for its ticket for the October 5 polls.
“As we stated final Monday, instantly after the Rivers State Impartial Electoral Fee (RSIEC) introduced October 5, 2024 because the date for the conduct of native authorities areas election within the state, the celebration has commenced the method of collaborating within the election.
“To this finish, the celebration is issueing kinds free to youths and feminine aspirants who shall be looking for our ticket to contest for the October 5, Rivers State Native Authorities Councils Elections. That is according to our resolve to champion ladies and youth inclusion in addition to participation in politics.
“We once more, hail the Government Governor of Rivers State, His Excellency Sim Fubara for his democratic posture to offer a approval for RSIEC to carry the train when most of his colleagues who they took oath of workplace on the identical day each for his or her first and second time period haven’t proven the dedication to entrenching democratically elected management on the grassroots however have reasonably continued to nominate and reappoint caretaker committees for greater than a yr now.
“It’s by this present of concern within the consolidation of democracy within the state, our celebration’s confidence has been restored and we’re totally collaborating within the train with agency imagine that we are going to win going by the tempo set by the His Excellency Governor Fubara and the RSIEC Chairman, Justice Adolphus Enebeli (rted).
“The APP equally urged different Governors and SIECs who’re but to repair date for native authorities elections since Might 29, 2023 to borrow a leaf from Governor Fubara in addition to RSIEC and instantly work out the plans for the conduct of council polls with the intention to tame with the undemocratic apply of appointing and reappointing caretaker committees,” he said.
