The Action Congress on Sunday called on President Umaru Yar�Adua to reconstitute the Independent National Electoral Commission ahead of the fresh poll ordered by the election tribunals.
The party said the President should also rectify the situation that led to the nullification of election results by the Supreme Court and the election tribunals.
According to a statement by the party�s Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, it will amount to an avoidable disaster to have the old order in place to conduct the by/fresh elections that will result from the outcome of the various election tribunals sitting across the country.
The party said, �Action Congress calls for the trial of all those who have put Nigeria in the avoidable, shameful situation of having the election of governors as well as lawmakers at all levels nullified in droves, a development unprecedented in the country�s history.
�Together, these people played a major role in the monumental disgrace the April elections turned out to be and the process leading to the elections especially the failure of the Peoples Democratic Party to respect its own rules leading to the shuffling of candidates like a pack of cards.
�While the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission was weaving its web of lies against select candidates, in the name of fighting corruption, the INEC turned itself to an arm of the PDP and a willing tool in the hands of a vindictive president.
�Unless the legacy of witch-hunting, brigandage, lawlessness and unconstitutional acts left by former President Olusegun Obasanjo is dismantled, all the talk about supremacy of the rule of law and due process will amount to mere sloganeering.�
The party said there should be no delay in overhauling INEC and sanitising the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and other law enforcement agencies.�
Oct292007