The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, had planned to use the uncollected Permanent Voters’ Cards, PVCs, to allocate votes to President Muhammadu Buhari.
In a statement yesterday night by the National Publicity Secretary
of the party, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, the main opposition party appealed to the
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for extension of time by three
days for collection of the PVCs.
The party said
the demand of three days extension was predicated on reports across the country
that some compromised INEC officials at the collection centres were
deliberately refusing to issue the PVCs to voters, thereby frustrating millions
of registered voters.
According to him, “The PDP believes that this deliberate refusal
to release the PVCs is part of the wider plot by the APC to disenfranchise
millions of Nigerians and frustrate their eagerness to vote out President
Buhari at the February 16 presidential election and elect the peoples
candidate, Atiku Abubakar.”
The party
demanded explanation from INEC for turning back registered voters who went to
collect their PVCs and directed them to come at a later date for an exercise
that is programmed to end on Friday.
It also called
on the leadership of INEC not to plunge the election into a needless
controversy but to redeem itself by extending the closing date for the collection
of PVCs by three days.
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