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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