INEC Officials Requesting Bribe To Register Voters – APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of corruption, ahead of the 2015 general elections.

In a petition to Kaduna State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), the state chapter of the party alleged that some of the electoral commissioners posted to Southern Kaduna were “shamelessly negotiating for financial inducement before they agree to go round for the [Permanent Voters Card (PVC)] exercise.

According to the petition signed by the state Chairman of the APC, Bala Barnabas Bantex, the distribution of the voters’ cards had failed. “It is either INEC is not prepared for the exercise or it has plans to deliberately exclude Kaduna State by depriving the people of their civic responsibilities.

“The leadership of the party in the state has gone round the entire state after the commencement of the exercise and observed that the PVC has recorded little success in that so many people were unable to receive theirs, and the explanation given by officials is that they have not received supplies.

“The continuous registration in most of the local governments has not commenced, where it has commenced it is only done at ward collating centres using one machine contrary to the guide line for conducting it at every polling unit.

“In Igabi Local Government Area with over 400,000 registered voters, the exercise is only carried out in seven centres; in Zaria Local Government where the exercise is yet to commence, INEC is planning to conduct it at its local government office only.

“If the PVC exercise is not carried out in accordance with the guideline, we are sorry to say that you are only inviting rancour and probably not prepared to conduct the general elections in Kaduna State. In other words, we suspect that you are only following the dictates of the ruling PDP at the expense of the popular majority,” Bantex added.

Source : Informationng