The Labour Party has alerted Nigerians over a possible plot to disenfranchise many Nigerians of voting age with the alleged slow pace of collection of permanent voters cards.
Tanko Yunusa, Spokesman of the Peter Obi campaign in a statement said the pace calls for concerns.
“INEC should open up on this deliberately designed weak operations to Nigerians before people start believing the apex electoral body has a hidden script unknown to us,” the party said
Saying the Independent National Electoral Commission, has less than two weeks to deliver PVCs to Nigerians, the party said reports it is getting nationwide about the ineptitude of their staff “is disheartening and frustrating most PVC collectors.”
The statement added “We have received reports from all the geo-political zones in Nigeria and the messages are all the same, people complaining of the snail pace at which the PVCs are being dispatched to collectors.
“Going by the elections timetable which is in accordance with Section 28(1) of the Electoral Act, 2022, the Presidential and National Assembly elections will hold on February 25.”
It said the governorship and state assemblies election will hold on March 22 adding many Nigerians who registered for PVCs are still finding it difficult to collect their voters card beats one’s imagination hollow.
It said, “If you take a close look at the INEC timetable you have less than 12 days left for collection of PVCs. People go and queue for hours out of about 500 PVC collectors only 20 or less than 50 people will be given their cards in wards designated for collection.
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“What kind of miracle is INEC going to perform that will ensure Nigerians get their PVCs within this short period if there’s no sinister motive underneath?
“The process for collection started on December 12th and is expected to end on Sunday the 22nd of January yet out there across the country many of our members are complaining that the process is cumbersome and INEC staff leisurely stroll in and out of the wards.”
Labour Party said INEC officials resume by 9am and close by 3pm m, noting “from information reaching us the INEC staff in most cases resume as from 11am daily.
“Today is 11th of January and by 22nd of this month the process will be collapsed, what’s going to be the faith of those who couldn’t get their voters card?
“We have said in different fora that on no account should any Nigerian be denied his inalienable rights to cast his votes.”