The Commission resumed sitting on Thursday to take testimonies from the public.
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The committee with Prof. Chidi Odinkalu and Bianca Ojukwu as Chairman and secretary respectively also has other notable sons and daughters from the five South-Eastern states of Abia Imo,Ebonyi, Enugu and Anambra.
Odinkanlu blasted the Federal Government for its audacity in instructing private businesses not to increase prices of goods and services when it had in the last few months increased the rate of Value Added Tax, pump price of petrol and charges on Point of Sales and Automated Teller Machine transactions.
Odinkalu who was a guest on Gatefield TV programme, #ConversationsWithAbangMercy, condemned the Federal Government’s treatment of Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and the shiites in Nigeria and accused them of siding with the Saudi Arabian Wahabbi Sunni government
The position of the group was contained in a statement read on behalf of the members by Soludo at a news conference in Abuja
While sitting in the waiting room for her first appointment with a new dentist, a lady who still considered herself very young (as almost all ladies do) noticed the DDS diploma on the wall of the hospital office which bore a familiar name. Suddenly, she remembered that a tall and handsome boy with the same name had been in her class some 35 odd years before
He said: “It’s clear that there are gangs, cults and militias that have been cultivated and to whom the leading political parties or people claiming to act on their behalf have somewhat “outsourced” election violence
Odinkalu, who is on a fact-finding mission to Rivers State, said this during a courtesy call on Peterside at the Greater Together Campaign office in Port Harcourt
The Chairman of the Governing Council of the Commission, Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, made the revelation on Friday in Abuja while representing a report entitled: “Pre-election Report and Advisory on Violence in Nigeria’s 2015 General Elections
It also urged the Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, to publicly apologise to the people of the state for his administration’s failure to institutionally set up a workable agency for emergency and accident rescue missions, which would have reduced and or eliminated the high casualties recorded during the unfortunate stampede