The All Progressives Congress, APC,
yesterday, accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over
alleged attempt to rig the 2015 general elections in favour of the ruling
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The
Kaduna State chapter of the party in a petition to the state Resident Electoral
Commissioner, REC, stated that some of the electoral commissioner, posted to
Southern Kaduna were “shamelessly negotiating for financial inducement before
they agree to go round for the (Permanent Voters Card, PVC) exercise.
”The
petition signed by the state Chairman of the APC, Mr. Bala Barnabas Bantex,
said the distribution of the voters cards had failed, adding that it “is either
INEC is not prepared for the exercise or it has plans to deliberately exclude
Kaduna State by depriving the people of their civic responsibilities.
“The
leadership of the party in the state has gone round the entire state after the
commencement of the exercise and observed that the PVC has recorded little
success in that so many people were unable to receive theirs, and the
explanation given by officials is that they have not received supplies…
“The
continuous registration in most of the local governments has not commenced,
where it has commenced it is only done at ward collating centres using one
machine contrary to the guide line for conducting it at every polling unit.
“In Igabi
Local Government Area with over 400,000 registered voters, the exercise is only
carried out in seven centres; in Zaria Local Government where the exercise is
yet to commence, INEC is planning to conduct it at its local government office
only…
“If the
PVC exercise is not carried out in accordance with the guideline, we are sorry
to say that you are only inviting rancour and probably not prepared to conduct
the general elections in Kaduna State.
In other
words, we suspect that you are only following the dictates of the ruling PDP at
the expense of the popular majority,” Bantex added.
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