Former National Elections Commission (NEC) Director of Civic Education, Josiah F. Joekai, now serving as a member of the Boakai for President campaign team, has declared that the NEC cannot announce the runoff elections date without the inputs of the Coalition for Democratic Change(CDC) and the Unity Party(UP) both of which are contestants in the impending runoff elections. In an interview with the Daily Observer on Monday, Joekai declared that in the absence of a mutually agreed consensus between NEC, UP and CDC on the modalities to be used during the runoff, NEC cannot, on its own authority make a unilateral decision to hold the runoff election. But alarmingly according to Mr. Joekai, Chairman Korkoya came to the meeting without a prepared agenda and when he was pressed by the UP and the CDC to produce one, Chairman Korkoya arrogantly insisted that his was a single-item agenda so he elected to present it orally. Mr. Joekai further disclosed that the meeting was conducted in an atmosphere which he described as tense, hostile and which prompted both parties to call a recess in order to mutually consult. He said this was necessary because there were just too many instances with several individuals carrying the same Voter identification number.

Source: Daily Observer December 12, 2017 02:26 UTC