Abimbola Akosile
1 August 2005
Lagos — Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) has been urged to extend its monitoring of activities of parties, in a bid to intervene and check acts that were likely to lead to widespread violence.
The Federal Government was also enjoined to rise to its responsibility of equality by making deliberate corrective actions on alleged imbalances in the society.
These calls were made against a background of the recent face-off between Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel's security men and supporters of Senator Ibikunle Amosun.
In a statement issued by Legal Defence and Assistance Project (Ledap) a non governmental organisation, which focused on human rights issues in Nigeria, the group decried the recent disruption of peace and stability in Ogun State resulting from the clash.
"Ledap views this, not only as a looming threat of political violence capable of fomenting crisis in the approaching 2007 general elections, but also as a calculated attempt at keeping women away from participating in the next political dispensation. The reported clash in Ogun state and its aftermath disturbances shows clearly the level at which the country's political terrain has degenerated to," the body said.contribution of nation building".
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