Rivers Electoral Commission Reaffirms Oct 5th For Council Polls

The Chairman of Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, Retired Justice Enebeli has reassured that the scheduled October, 5th, 2024 local government Council elections is sacrosanct.

Retired Justice gave the assurance during on ongoing Training of Master Trainers for Rivers RSIEC Staffs holding at Justice Mary Odili Institute in Port Harcourt where he cited the state electoral law and the recent judgement of Supreme Court which empowers them to conduct the schedule elections.

He further emphasized that there is no current judgment or any other impediment against the conduct of the local government council elections, saying that RSIEC as the electoral umpire in the state is fully ready and prepared for the conduct of the elections on the October, 5th, 2024.

Addressing the Trainers and Master Trainers for Rivers RSIEC Staffs, retired Justice Enebeli describe the exercise as an investment that would help the electoral process have integrity.

Justice Enebeli, while reminding the master trainers that their role to to train the RSIEC ad-hoc staffs and other electoral officers, assured that the commission is determined for free, fair, credible and violence election free in the elections.

THE WHISTLER reports that the RSIEC Chairman while stating that the ten days nationwide hunger protest changed the timetable, revealed that out of nineteen registered political patties, eighteen political parties are participating in the elections with over three hundred contestants.

He also assured that names of contestants who scaled through the screaning will be published between today and tomorrow, 24th of September, 2024.

Rivers Electoral Commission Reaffirms Oct 5th For Council Polls is first published on The Whistler Newspaper