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Okwe Obi, Abuja
Election observer group, Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC), has vowed to expose and shame those saddled with different positions in the recent polls, but ended up truncating the exercise.
WARDC, in conjunction with Actionaid, Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) and Strengthening Citizens Resistance Against Prevalence of Corruption (SCRAP-C), said their insidious act soiled the image of the country before the international community.
WARDC’s Executive Director, Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, who said this, yesterday, at a meeting on vote-buying and political corruption, in Abuja, proposed a public hearing, so that Nigerians can dissect and chart a new course.
She said: “Electoral officers were held hostage, hijacked and even shot. I don’t think in our electoral history we’ve got to that level where electoral officers can not sit and declare results without interference of political thugs and security officers.
“If we had reports, how come professors who were the returning officers are not coming out to talk about it. We need a public hearing, for people to talk about what happened, so that it won’t be repeated.
“After the audit, we are going to make our recommendations to the institutions involved; we are going to name names and shame those who are supposed to be shamed. “
