Ten political parties operating in Anambra State have called on Governor Willie Obiano to commence the process for the conduct of the local government elections without further delay, arguing that it would not be proper to create a vacuum since the tenure of the incumbent council officials would expire in January next year.
In a statement issued by chairmen of the political parties in the state yesterday, they observed that the delay in releasing the time table for the conduct of the local government elections by the Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission, ANSIEC, was not a healthy development.
Chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Comrade Luke Ezeanokwasa and chairman of Peoples Democratic Congress, PDC, Prince Isaac Onuka, who spoke with reporters in Awka on behalf of the parties, recalled that the last local government election was conducted after 11 years of pressure mounted on the various administrations in the state and insisted that the people at the grass root level would not want to experience such anomaly again.
Other chairmen of political parties that signed the statement include Paul Asika of ADC, Kaje Igwah of UPN, Kate Okafor of ACD, Mathias Amaeke of PPA, Aeron Igweze of AD, Bath Igwedibia of Accord Party, Samuel Anidike of NAPPP, Edward Okoye of FDP and Patrick Dim of DPC.
