Peter said that the road walk was aimed at sensitising the people of Kogi to say \u2018no\u2019 to election violence and \u2018yes\u2019 to peaceful elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dWe are here to show INEC our support through the street campaign to ensure violence-free elections in Kogi before, during and after Nov. 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dWe will continue to help you to see that your work is successful, come Nov.16; we will have elections free of violence in Kogi,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter noted that CAJR had engaged various stakeholders across the three senatorial districts of Kogi on the need to have elections devoid of violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. James Apam, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state, commended the organisations for the initiative and for having the interest of the state at heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apam reaffirmed the commitment of INEC to conducting free, fair and credible governorship election in Kogi on Nov. 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dWe really appreciate what you are doing; you are actually helping our work; we are determined to conducting free, fair and credible elections in Kogi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dWe only hope that all we are doing will pay off by the time we have the election,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apam noted that elections in Kogi had not been very peaceful in the past, but urged the people to start turning a new leave and develop a new culture of having very peaceful election in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He expressed optimism that a peaceful and violent-free election would become the new culture in the state henceforth, promising to build peoples\u2019 confidence in INEC, for the benefits of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Stephen Adeleye The Centre for Advocacy of Justice and Rights in partnership with the International Foundation Electoral System, have embarked on street campaign to sensitise the people of Kogi on the need for peaceful election Miss Etty Peter, the Project Coordinator of CAJR, told newsmen at INEC office in Lokoja on Friday, that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[10,31,144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}