Imo State Resident Electoral
Commissioner, Prof. Francis Chukwuemeka Ezeonu, says 2019 elections would be
difficult to rig as all results from the polling units would be transmitted
electronically to the collation centre.
Ezeonu, therefore, advised
politicians to reach out to electorates to register and collect their PVCs.
The state’s Resident Electoral
Commissioner revealed this over the weekend, when the leadership of the
Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists Imo state council
paid him a courtesy visit.
He further expressed worry that
370,000 Permanent Voters Cards (PVCS) were yet be collected by the owners who
had registered between 2011 and 2014 during the voters’ registration exercise.
He said, “As I speak now, we
still about 379,000 PVCs that are yet to be collected by the owners who had
done their registration between 2011 and 2014 and as a result the commission
has to take the PVCs to the various wards across the state and paste the names
of those who own it to come forward and collect them.
“Following the public
enlightenment embarked by the commission across the 27 area council of the
state many prospective voters who had attained the voting age and those who had
never registered before are now coming out in their large numbers to register
for the 2019 general elections.
“Again we discovered that many
people are not coming out to register, and to ensure that those who have
attained the voting age come to register for the 2019 general elections and for
subsequent elections we decided to embark on enlightenment campaign to the
council areas of the state to educate the people on the importance of
registering for the 2019 and for other future elections. Since then we have
witnessed very impressive turn outs at the various wards which is good a thing.
“Why we had to do that is to
remove the apathy among people who see it as a waste of time to register
because they will tell you that whether the vote or not that the winners are
already known and we have told them that it is not going to be that way in 2019
and that the only way they can vote who they want is by having a voters’ card,
by registering to vote.”
“Politicians who want to win in
2019 should work hard to convince the electorate as it is now very difficult to
rig elections.
“The era of cloning of PVCs and
giving same to their agents to go and vote with it is over, as no one could
vote without the card reader which would determine the true owner of the PVCs.”
The rigging has started already with registration of underage voters in kano state and possibly other areas of the country.
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