Despite growing calls that the Resident Electoral Commission (REC) in Imo State, Professor Sylvia Agu, be removed, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has insisted that there is no reason to remove the official.
In an interview, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, noted that there was no reason to remove the REC, adding that complaints against AGU were based on suspicion.
The spokesperson for the INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, took disciplinary actions against its RECs in Abia, Sokoto, and Adamawa states during the general elections earlier in the year when they acted outside the provisions of the commission.
Meanwhile, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has had to redeploy Mohammed Barde as the Commissioner of Police in Imo State for “neutrality’s sake” following demands by the Organized Labour that Barde was complicit in the attack on the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero.
