IPAC, CUPP allege Bayelsa REC setting aside INEC guidelines

The Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC)  and the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP)  have accused the Bayelsa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Pastor Monday Tom Udoh of working contrary to the guidelines of the Indepedent National Electoral Commission (INEC) .
 In a statement, Chairman of CUPP, Chief Tari Edwin and his IPAC counterpart, Eneyi Zidougha, on Wednesday, alleged that Udoh had demonstrated a brazen violation of the electoral guidelines in the country.
The duo, in the statement they jointly signed, called on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission to redeploy the REC from the state for acting contrary to the stipulations of the electoral act.
Both leaders said that the REC had demonstrated lack of integrity, capacity and courage to demonstrate the requisite impartiality in the electoral contest in Bayelsa State.
The politicians who said that they no longer have faith in the impartiality of  Udoh to preside over the elections in Bayelsa State called for his immediate redeployment from the state.
They stressed that only a deeply compromised REC would accept results from places like Nembe Bassambiri where his own workers were abducted and taken away with electoral material to non-designated location for thumb-printing.
They added that only a REC devoid of reputation would accept concocted results without the use of the voters cards and the card readers as was the case in some of the results accepted and presented to INEC by the REC.
“We the members of the Coalition òf United Political Parties and the Inter-Party Advisory Council are appalled by the lack of capacity demonstrated by the Bayelsa State Resident Electoral Commissioner,  Pastor Monday Tom Udoh.
We are yet to recover from the shock that Mr. Udoh accepted concocted results in an  election that did not take place in Nembe Bassambiri.
The REC went further to announce that 63 card readers were missing in some local government areas where he has already produced misleading results to the commission.
“Based on the dwindling trust we have for the REC, we hereby call on the Indepedent National Electoral Commission to redeploy the REC to where his action will not do so much damage to the commission and indeed the society,” the statement read in part.