Mr. Jimi Agbaje has urged INEC to ensure it delivers free, fair and credible elections.
In his New Year message yesterday, Agbaje said Nigerians would be honoured to have the 2019 polls as the most credible reults of their will.
According to him: “We pray for peaceful polls in 2019, but peaceful elections can only happen when the majority people believe that the conduct and results of the electoral process accurately reflect their collective will as expressed through the ballots.
“The whole world has its focus on Nigeria’s 2019 elections as they would determine whether 2015’s smooth and seamless transition was a fluke or the confirmation of the country’s truly democratic credentials.
“INEC must deliver credible and commendable elections and this means that the commission must assert its independence and resist all attempts by unscrupulous individuals and interests to falsify results and rig elections.”
He asked the people of Lagos to remain hopeful that their bondage of 19 years of misgovernment would be loosed in 2019. He said: “My message to Lagosians is that their freedom lies in their own hands. “We must celebrate 2019 as the year that Lagos will break loose from impunity, misgovernment and under-development.
And Lagosians must themselves make this happen, not only by voting, but by protecting their votes from the cabal that believes that it has the electoral formula.”
He, therefore, urged all Rivers people to use 2019 to re-affirm their support for his administration during the elections and chart a new direction at the national level.
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