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       Corpers Refuse Participation In Rivers Rerun Election
   DIR By: Eda
       Date: December 6, 2016, 12:32 pm
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       Corp members are avoiding to participate in the legislative
       rerun election scheduled for Saturday in Rivers State.
       Investigation revealed that corps members who are being
       contacted to serve as ad hoc staff of the Independent National
       Electoral Commission are refusing to participate in the election
       because of fear of possible violence during the election.
       A source who confided in our correspondent said that the corps
       members were not showing the usual enthusiasm to participate in
       the election because of the accusations and counter-accusation
       between the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike , and INEC.
       The source said, “Corps members being contacted by INEC to
       participate in the Rivers rerun election are showing reluctance
       to serve in the election.
       “A good number of them are afraid that there could be violence
       during the election, and these are young men and women who don’t
       want to get killed because of some election.”
       When our correspondent contacted the Chief Press Secretary to
       the Chairman of INEC, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, he said that it was
       only the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Rivers that could
       comment on that.
       Reacting, the state REC, Mr. Aniedi Ikoiwak, said the job of
       corps members was voluntary, adding that those who did not want
       to work with INEC on election day were free to opt out.
       Ikoiwak argued that some of the corps members’ parents might
       have told them not to take part in the rerun election, adding
       that such a situation would not affect the exercise on Saturday.
       The state REC, however, pointed out that INEC would get more ad
       hoc workers from other government’s agencies if there was
       shortage in the number of corps members needed for the job on
       Saturday.
       “From the beginning, the NYSC work is on a voluntary basis. We
       know that some of them might have been told by their parents not
       to be part of it (election).
       “But if we have problem of shortage of manpower, we will
       complete them with workers from other government’s agencies and
       institutions,” he stressed.
       Oyekanmi also agreed that most parents would be inclined to
       discourage their children from participating in the election
       because of what he described as the infuse of what he described
       as the inflammatory comments by the Rivers State Government that
       plans had been perfected to rig the election.
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