The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties has insisted that the Ondo State governorship election must go on as scheduled.
The coalition of political parties said after a careful analysis of the political temperature of the state, it came to the conclusion that the governorship election scheduled for Saturday, November 26, 2016 should go ahead as planned.
The National Publicity Secretary of CNPP, Mr. Olawale Olaniyi, told reporters in Abuja on Wednesday that the Independent National Electoral Commission should conduct the poll as scheduled.
He said, “It is our considered opinion that the material conditions upon which the postponement of elections could be predicated does not substantially exist in the Ondo case; therefore INEC should go ahead and conduct the governorship election as scheduled.
“The CNPP, for the umpteenth time, wishes to call on Nigerian political parties to imbibe the crucial tenets of internal democracy so as to harmoniously elect candidates at every election instead of overheating the polity and putting our fledgling democracy at self-foisting harm.
“As the intra-party wrangling and the do-or-die tussle heating the Ondo politics arena from the All Progressives Congress, the Peoples Democratic Party, and the peace mechanism procured by the Alliance for Democracy, could have been unnecessary if internal democracy has been consummated in our politics.”
Olaniyi described as “painful and nauseating” the unwarranted burden imposed on the judiciary and INEC by mindless political gladiators who refused to put their acts together by venturing into unbridled “political hara-kiri.”
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