By Luminous Jannamike
ABUJA — The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has warned political parties and government institutions against using state machinery to manipulate Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State, insisting that no candidate should gain an unfair advantage because of access to governmental structures.
The council said whoever emerges must do so through the freely expressed choice of Osun voters, rather than intimidation, manipulation, inducement or the deployment of public institutions against political opponents.
IPAC National Chairman, Dr Yusuf M. Dantalle, gave the warning in Abuja on Monday after the council’s General Assembly reviewed the political situation ahead of the August 15 poll and called for a free, fair, transparent, credible and peaceful election.
“Government institutions belong to the people and must remain institutions of the State, not instruments of partisan political competition,” Dantalle said.
