CALLS FOR REVIEW OF VOTER REGISTER IN KANO
Admin l Wednesday, February 21, 2018
ABUJA, Nigeria – The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alerted Nigerians about what it described as a grand ploy by the All Progressive Congress(APC) to falsify statistics in a bid to hoodwink Nigerians ahead of the 2019 general elections.The PDP made the revelation at a press conference addressed by Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan.
“Part of this plot is to falsify figures to suggest sudden economic rebound, with false and unverifiable statistics in critical sectors, particularly, agriculture, youth empowerment, health, social safety nets, security among others to hoodwink the people.
“There will also be frantic effort to lay claim on projects initiated and executed by the PDP; multiple commissioning of same projects like the railway project and the unmanned drone project in Kaduna state; awards of bogus contracts and procurement of international endorsements.
“Our take is that this resort to falsehood has clearly shown the depravity of the APC in the face of its failure. Such a trip is practically of no moment as Nigerians are now better informed and cannot be swayed by imported indices and fabricated statistics”, he said and alerted the media, Nigerians and the international community.
He called on Nigerians to crosscheck all figures and indices coming from the Presidency, the APC and uncertified profiling agencies, who he said are being used by the Federal Government in this new attempt to deceive. On recent revelation of underaged voting in Kano State, he said INEC under Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has completely discredited and disqualified itself and cannot be trusted to conduct a credible, free and fair general elections in 2019.
The import of this statement that INEC officials succombed due to shows that INEC under Prof. Yakubu is not firm in its acts and will consequently cave in and accept any form of irregularities once it is put under pressure by members of a voting community.
“It goes to say that this INEC can readily announce false results, cancel elections, alter polling procedures and allow any irregularities during the 2019 general elections once it is threatened by the All Progressives Congress (APC) or any other group for that matter.
“If INEC is afraid of a voting community so much so that after registering minors, it still went ahead to process their data and issue them with valid voters card, then there is no way it can withstand the pressure and threat that we all know will be exerted by desperate APC forces, whose electoral strength, particularly in Kano and Katsina states, is now exposed to be based on underage voters”, the PDP spokesman said.
Consequently, the PDP demanded an immediate review of voters register, particularly in Kano and Katsina.
“We demand a revalidating the voters register to eliminate all the minors and insist that no election must hold in these states until the register is sanitized”, the PDP said.