Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has charged electoral umpires to ensure free, fair, transparent, and credible elections that will generally reflect the will of the people.
Governor Oborevwori, who gave the charge while swearing-in the Chairman and members of the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission DSIEC, on Monday in Asaba, said Nigerians were desirous of an electoral process where their will would prevail.
Those sworn-in include; Dr Jerry Agbaike as Chairman while Mr James Umukoro; Mr Friday Seimode; Mrs Light Diden; Mr Imasua Azogbulem; Mr Chris Onwuma and Chief Frank Oru are members.
The Governor also swore-in the Chairman and members of the Delta State Local Government Service Commission with Hon. Joseph Otirhue as Chairman; while Mr. Anslem Nwokenye; Dame Minnie Igbrude and Hon. Philomena Ededey are members.
Similarly, Delta State Contributory Health Commission has Dr. Austin Obidi as Chairman and Dr. Isaac Akpoveta as Director-General.
He said the primary responsibility of (DSIEC) was to organize, undertake, and supervise all elections to local government councils in the state in accordance with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as altered).
Governor Oborevwori said members of the Commission were carefully selected to reflect the values of probity, accountability, and strength of character that they possessed.
He urged members of the Commission to ensure that the will of voters prevailed at all times in all elections they would conduct.
For the Chairman and members of the Delta State Local Government Service Commission, Governor Oborevwori said they were charged with the responsibility of supervising the management of the affairs of Local Government Councils, especially as it concerned recruitment, promotion, discipline, and career development of staff of the Councils.
He said members of the Commission were persons of integrity who were expected to discharge their mandate without bias, prejudice, and favouritism and expressed confident that the new Chairman and members of the Commission would meet the criteria.
He urged the Chairman and Director-General of the Delta State Contributory Health Commission to exhibit the virtues of probity, transparency and accountability in their quest for Universal Health Coverage for Deltans.
Responding on behalf of the appointees, Dr Austin Obidi thanked Governor Oborevwori for finding them fit to serve and pledged to uphold the principles of probity, transparency and accountability in the discharge of their duties.
He said no efforts would be spared in their quest to contribute to advancing the M.O.R.E agenda of the present administration.
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