Buhari, INEC Plotting To Use PVCs Of Dead Persons During Election – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised the alarm that President Muhammadu Buhari and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of planning to use the PVCs of “dead voters” to shore up votes in the coming elections.

Uche Secondus, national chairman of the PDP, made the accusation on Thursday at a World Press Conference which marks the end of Presidential and National Assembly campaigns in Abuja

Secondus said the abuse of PVCs is the evidence of bad faith by those managing the election and the government of the day.

“The voters’ register contains the data of dead voters. Permanent Voters Cards for dead voters were printed and distributed nationwide.

“Government data show that the gross death rate in Nigeria is 12.5 per 1000 lives. We have evidence that over 1,050,051 dead voters will vote in this election.

“The decision that dead voters will cast ballots has been taken by INEC and the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The idea of ghost voters is consistent with the nature of this virtual President,” he said.

Not left out in his accusation is the INEC, which he accused of manipulating the voters register.

“In previous INEC administrations, this eventuality was mitigated by administrative arrangements wherein a voter did accreditation in the morning and voted in the afternoon – so if a voter wanted to vote twice, say at A and B, they would have to go to A and get accredited, then go to B and also get accredited, and then go back to A to vote and the then go to B to vote – an onerous regimen that prevented cultivating.

“In the new continuous voting regime, this administrative support measure has been disposed of specifically to facilitate multiple voting by a huge number of APC voters,” he said.

He further alleged that there has been a coordinated approach to register foreigners as voters, mainly from Niger and Cameroon.

That, he said, is why INEC has established so many polling units along the border with Cameroon and Niger – despite the fact that population data does not justify the move.

Secondus called on the ruling APC to respect the will of the people.

He urged INEC to call an immediate meeting of the political parties participating in the presidential election to appoint representatives drawn from the parties that will oversee their work.