Guber Poll: Redeployment of Osun REC may erode voter trust – CSOs

Civil nine groups successful Osun State person raised concerns astir imaginable implications for nationalist assurance pursuing the redeployment of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr Mutiu Agboke, to Ondo State.

The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations moving connected Civic Education shifted absorption to the effect of the determination connected elector trust, noting that the timing could power perceptions of the electoral process up of cardinal activities.

In a connection issued by its National Chairman, Ambassador Dr Stephen Aremu Akinleye connected Wednesday, the conjugation said the improvement had prompted questions among stakeholders astir continuity and stableness wrong the electoral system.

Akinleye stated, “We are acrophobic that the redeployment, coming astatine a delicate period, whitethorn impact the level of spot that has been gradually built betwixt citizens and the electoral body.”

He added that the coalition’s engagements with Agboke had fostered confidence, stressing that “his tenure was marked by openness, professionalism and a committedness to inclusive dialogue.”

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