{"id":35777,"date":"2019-10-31T11:32:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T10:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=35777"},"modified":"2019-10-31T11:32:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T10:32:19","slug":"bayelsa-rec-refutes-allegations-of-double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/bayelsa-rec-refutes-allegations-of-double-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayelsa REC Refutes  Allegations Of Double Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"I_52qC D_FY W_6D6F\" data-test-id=\"message-view-body\">\n<div class=\"msg-body P_wpofO iy_A mq_AS\" data-test-id=\"message-view-body-content\">\n<div class=\"jb_0 X_6MGW N_6Fd5\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"yiv5946836175\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"yiv5946836175m_-2269047732907887811m8323197757624367824\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>By \u00a0Ariwera \u00a0Ibibo-Howells<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bayelsa State Resident Electoral Commissioner,REC, \u00a0Pastor Monday Udom Wednesday refuted allegations of double standards levelled \u00a0against him by the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP Guber campaign organisation in the state.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Udom said \u00a0while the PDP campaign team accuses him of having contracted the recruitment of Adhoc staff \u00a0for the November 16th Governorship election his office and person has hardly met with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Federal University Otuoke \u00a0whom the party alleged was contracted by him to recruit the said Adhoc staff for the polls.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The REC said, &#8220;it is baseless and unfounded the report that I contracted the DVC Federal University Otuoke to recruit Adhoc staff for INEC for the conduct of the forthcoming election.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He added that the first and only time INEC, Bayelsa office met with University&#8217;s authority was ona partnership for a movie \u00a0on election sensitization entitled voters Republic,stressing that he has never given anybody contract to provide the electoral body with Adhoc personel for the Governorship election.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Responding to questions from Journalists on the state of INEC \u00a0preparedness for polls, the REC disclosed that already the commission \u00a0has commenced the training for SPOs and other Adhoc staff,emphasising that the commission is ready \u00a0to conduct free,fair \u00a0and credible polls.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According \u00a0to the \u00a0electoral boss,following \u00a0INEC&#8217;s resolve to continue making \u00a0votes count, the commission has held series of meetings and consultations with stakeholders,saying \u00a0that the electoral umpire owes Bayelsans \u00a0and Nigerians \u00a0the duty of conducting free and acceptable polls.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Meanwhile all attempts at speaking with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the citadel \u00a0yielded \u00a0no fruits as at Press time.This medium can reliably inform you that prior to REC&#8217;s \u00a0press parlay there were wide spread speculations that INEC may have contracted the university don which name was given as Prof, Teddy Adiase to help recrutit adhoc staff.for the commission to enable it conduct the 2019 governorship polls coming up in a forthright.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Speaking against the backdrop of voters apathy, Udom stated that out of a total of 923,182 registered voters in the state just about 889, 308 PVCs alone have been collected while a total of 33, 874 were left uncollected.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It would be recalled that in about a forthright Bayelsans would be going to the polls to elect their next governor.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jb_0 X_6MGW N_6Fd5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"H_7jIs D_F ab_C Q_69H5 E_36RhU\" data-test-id=\"toolbar-hover-area\">\n<div class=\"D_F W_6D6F r_BN gl_C\" 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