Recent views expressed on Africa Independent
Television, AIT, by Mrs. Eno Udensi, President of a South African-based
Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, that elections in Rivers State were free
and fair, have been dismissed and described as an afterthought from a biased
observer.
Mrs. Udensi,
who, also, in the same television program, said the Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC, deserved commendation for “job well done”, has been
advised to learn to speak the truth at all times at least, not to mislead the
younger generation. “We want to advice Mrs. Udensi, who is a known apologist of
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Obong Godswill Akpabio, that truth at all times, is
costlier than cash”.
In a reaction to Udensi's warped views unashamedly
canvassed on behalf of the Pan African Women Observer Group, which monitored
the hugely discredited elections in Rivers State, the Greater Together Campaign
Organisation, GTCO, berated Mrs. Udensi for selling her value for a pot of
porridge.
While expressing the hope Mrs. Udensi's views were
personal and not that of the Observer group she led, the campaign outfit noted
that even at that, Mrs. Udensi's position was a deviant and an aberration when
compared with other reports turned in by credible observer groups including
teams from United States and the European Union. “It was possible Mrs. Udensi
was quarantined by her sponsors in an insulated 5-star hotel room, sipping
leisurely cups of coffee, when the guns were booming in Akuku Toru and Asari
Toru local government areas. It was possible her sponsors sedated her with a
lullaby that lured her to sleep on a water bed when armed militia groups
sponsored by PDP went on killing spree in Tai, Etche, Okrika, Port Harcourt
City.
She also must
have been in that deep sleep when PDP thugs attacked virtually every Poling
Unit in Rivers State and snatched ballot boxes and ballot papers, thumb-printed
in private homes, burnt the RAC in Buguma and committed other electoral
malfeasances against Rivers people.
Had Mrs. Udensi done the job she came to Rivers State
last April 11, she would have seen the travesty, the day-robbery and the war
unleashed on Rivers people by PDP in criminal collaboration with INEC and
security agencies.
The campaign outfit reiterated its earlier rejection
of all that took place in Rivers State on April 11. “We insist that what
transpired in Rivers State on April 11 was no election in the true meaning of
the word. Mrs. Udensi is an enemy of Rivers' future and wellbeing.
By her views, she has revealed her connivance in the
questionable conduct of Mrs. Gesila Khan, the INEC Resident Electoral
Commissioner, REC, in the conduct of the elections. It is unfortunate that
people like Mrs. Udensi saw no evil in INEC's betrayal. Until justice was done,
Rivers people will continue to demand same and condemn likes of Mrs. Udensi”.
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