POSN Demands Explanations of Mass Destruction of PVC from INEC
…asks INEC to relocate Pooling Unit Close to Bourdillion in Lagos
Peter Obi Support Network (POSN) has demanded explanations of mass dumping of Permanent Voters Card (PVC) in major cities like Lagos and Port Harcourt, Rivers State etc on daily basis from Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The Group in a letter submitted to the Electoral body and dated August 30, 2022 said the PVCs exhumed from dumping sites and gutters showed names and pictures and other relevant information pertaining to the alleged owners of such mutilated cards.
The group said, ” in the last few weeks preceding this write up, various disturbing viral videos have been flying about in most social media platforms, notably the medium of Facebook and Twitter, showing various scenarios where permanent voters cards of eligible Nigerians running into thousands are seen being exhumed from gutters and refuse dumpsites in most major cities like Lagos and Port Harcourt, Rivers State etc on daily basis, showing the names, pictures and other relevant information appertaining to the alleged owners of such mutilated cards.
“We find such disturbing viral videos extremely irksome and politically demotivating taking into cognisance the arduous rigorous process the average Nigerian faces in an attempt to comply with the registration demands prescribed by your agency, only to be flushed away, mutilated and destroyed in such a wicked, callous and dehumanizing manner by supposed staff working under your command for whatever selfish motives that may have actuated their horrible actions. ”
POSN also asked INEC to relocate Pooling Unit located closely to the residence of one of the major contenders for the 2023 Presidential election in Bourdilion, Lagos State.
“credible feelers equally reaching us by most of our members that reside or have their polling unit around the Bourdillion part of Ikoyi, Lagos has it that a particular polling unit is sited so disturbingly close to the personal residence of one of the major frontliners in the forthcoming presidential elections slated for February 25th, 2023, making them highly apprehensive of their ability to vote freely on any election day.
“Their fears are with respect not without foundation judging from events of the past elections where political thugs and social miscreants seemingly loyal to the cause of the presidential candidate have sought to undermine peaceful voting process via application of pure intimidatory crude tactics in a bid to disenfranchise voters from freely casting votes for candidates of their choice, even when the alleged candidate was then not a direct contestant in those elections.”
The group further requested that all those INEC officials found to have manifestly connived and colluded with anti-democratic elements in the country are made to face the music to serve as deterrence to other staff .
In addition, the group asked for the creation of practical and verifiable platforms where registered voters denied of their rights to ownership/possessions of PVCs could ventilate their complaints and have same expeditiously remedied via the issuance of PVCs to them.”
