COVID-19: Aremu wants Edo, Ondo elections postponed

Date: 2020-06-29

A former Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Kwara State, Comrade Issa Aremu, has urged INEC to postpone the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic to safeguard lives.

The labour leader, while speaking in Kaduna, said considering the huge spike in the number of COVID-19 cases and rising deaths across the country, it would be imperative for INEC to postpone the elections as only the living could vote and be voted for.

Aremu said, "The death of a former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Isiaka Ajimobi, who died of COVID-19, and the figures of fatalities reeled out daily by the NCDC show that the disease is real and is killing Nigerians.

"There are enough reasons for INEC to consider the spike in the number of cases and fatalities across the country and postpone the elections in Edo and Ondo states.

"I monitored the recent party primaries in Edo State and there was no semblance of COVID-19 protocols of physical distancing or use of face mask by either APC or PDP; not even our own LP. "INEC can take recourse to the constitution and consider the pandemic as an emergency to shift the elections in solidarity with those that have been killed by the disease and to safeguard the lives of Nigerians."

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Umar Ayinla Saro     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     GGDSS Pakata     NIRSAL     Oke-opin     Kannike     Mike Omotosho     Belgore     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     Bayo Onimago     Bureau Of Lands     Arik     REO CAKES     AbdulGaniyu Kareem     Oluwole Dupe     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Zara Umar     Kwara Restoration Project     Taofeek Ibraheem     Hassan Oyeleke     Photo News     Sabitiyu Grillo     MMWG     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Risikat Lawal     Albert Ogunsola     Olosi Of Osi     Yahaya Oloriegbe     Zainab Abass     Kayode Yusuf     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Lola Ashiru     Tunde Kazeem     Lanre Aremu     Kamaldeen Gambari     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Shonga Farm Project     IESA     Moshood Bakare     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Zaratu Umar     MalHub     20 Billion Bond     Yusuf Abdulkadir     Peter Obi     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Gbemisola Saraki     Mashood Abdulrafiu Agboola     Dasuki Belgore     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Al-Adaby     LAK Jimoh     Amule     Femtech     Garment Factory     James Kolo     Kwara Central     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Laboratory-to-Product     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Saka Asiat Ayinke     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     KWSIEC     Lateef Alagbonsi     Tafida     Alagbado     Abdulrosheed Okiki     Olatinwo     Sarakite     KFA     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Aso-ofi     T And K FOODS     Dan-Kazeem     Teachers Specific Allowance    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Igosun     Al-Hikmah University     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     Eleja     Kwara     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Prince Bola Ajibola     Haliru Yahaya     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Aso-ofi     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Ado Bayero     Olabimpe Olani     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     IFK     Omotoso     Overland     United Nigeria Airline     Diagnostic Centre     Folashade Omoniyi     Harrison Osauwagboe     Babata     Trader Moni     Nupe     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Sidikat Alaya     Gbenga Awoyale     ER-KANG     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Ishaq Salman     Peter Amogbonjaye     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Ndama Al-hassan     Taofik Mustapha     Ado Ibrahim     Student Learning Support Helpline     Woro     Isiaka Danmeromu     Bolaji Gambari     Tunde Akanbi     Sa\'adu Salahu     Olatunde Michaels     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Olupako     Assayomo     Tunde Yusuf     Okin Biscuits     Durbar Festival     Abubakar Imam     LAK Jimoh     Abatemi Usman     Falokun-Oja     Jeunkunu-Malete-Bani     Babaita     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Jamila Bio Ibrahim     Malete     Idowu Laro     Tayo Awodiji     Kabir Shagaya     David Adesina     Senate     Gambari     Abdulganiy Abimbola Abdussalam     Adisa Logun     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Baba Isale     Esinrogunjo     Tayo Alao     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji