R-L: Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), Lagos State, Otunba Henry Oladele Ajomale; National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; Party Chieftain, Chief Murphy Adetoro; and State Women Leader, Mrs. Kemi Nelson, during a media briefing by the leadership of the party on the shortcomings of INEC over ongoing distributions of Permanent Voters Cards, at APC Secretariat, Ogba, Lagos

Following the flawed Permanent Voters Cards, PVC, distribution in Lagos, a national leader of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC of colluding with President Goodluck Jonathan to rig election in Lagos State.

Tinubu, at a news conference on Saturday at the APC Lagos Secretariat, Acme Road, Ogba, in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria described the PVC collection exercise in Lagos as a colossal failure deliberately perpetrated by INEC and the presidency to rig election in Lagos next year.

He said despite the fact that INEC had four years to prepare for the forthcoming election, the umpire body has shown that it was not ready to conduct a free and fair election with the shoddy manner with which it is handling the PVC distribution in Lagos.

“This exercise is not acceptable. INEC is colluding with the presidency to rig the forthcoming election. This is a deliberate collusion as far as I am concern. It is inexcusable. INEC has merged with Jonathan to form a formidable rigging body. We will stand to protect our rights,” he said.
According to Tinubu, “in 2011, a total of 6,247,845 people registered. Surprisingly, the recent figure claimed by INEC had whittled that figure down to 4.8 million. The reasons for this sudden and steep drop are shrouded in mystery and suspicion due to lack of INEC’s transparency.
“Polling units whose registered voters have been reduced to zero are on the increase and the number of such empty units now stands at a staggering 1,801 million. The question INEC needs to answer is how did all these names got wiped down to such zero?

“It boggles the mind that in a densely populated and politically active state such as Lagos, there can be so many units with no registered voters at all. This bellied the recent history of voting in Lagos. It makes no logical sense.”

The former governor lamented that INEC had the time to give Nigeria an acceptable biometric PVC, but failed in a common exercise that Ghana and Kenya did successfully, saying that INEC was not forced to give a date to Lagos on the PVC distribution, only to turn back 48 hours to the distribution that only 11 Local Governments, out of 20 in Lagos will get the PVC.

“They told us that only 11 Local Government is ready and rather than outright boycott, the party endured the frustration and asked the public, especially APC members to go for it. Our reports from the field so far showed that the exercise has failed and is unacceptable. In some instance, you don’t find INEC starting on time, the cards were not sorted out and were inadequate,” he decried.


INEC Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega: accused of conniving with President Goodluck Jonathan to disenfranchise voters

Tinubu said even in the 11 LGs, there is so much confusion and disorganisation in the distribution such that by the second day of the exercise, just 20 per cent had received their PVCs, saying “We must also query INEC as to what percentage of total registered voters the 11 LGs constitute.”

He lamented that INEC had set in motion a process dripping in doubt and susceptible to fraud and manipulation, adding that one is forced to believe that INEC was not this incompetent but that it now acted in direct collusion with the ruling PDP to disenfranchise eligible voters and rig the elections.

“Going by this shoddy, disorganised and unreliable method of distributing the PVCs in the 11 Local Governments, INEC has shown its hands. They are unclean. There is no way it will not appear to any reasonable person or analytical mind that there is something amiss. There is no assurance that INEC will correct the anomalies in Lagos and be able to register those omitted and new eligible voter.

“We suspect that some elements are working in cohorts with the ruling paty to deliberately bungle the exercise in order to favour the ruling party. INEC has done nothing but a trial run in Lagos. We adjudge this exercise a failure,” Tinubu stated.

Tinubu insisted that INEC must publish the list of about 1.8 million voters omitted from the Lagos registered, saying that the umpire body was not a court of law to disenfranchise Lagosians.

He said there was no way INEC could meet the 30 days deadline provided by the Electoral Act to public the names of all registered voters before the elections in February 2015.

Source: http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2014/11/08/pvc-inec-jonathan-conniving-to-rig-2015-elections-says-bola-tinubu/

It boggles the mind that in a densely populated and politically active state such as Lagos, there can be so many units with no registered voters at all. This bellied the recent history of voting in Lagos. It makes no logical sense.”

DonaldGenes:
This Man cc Tinubu, iCan now see is an inveterate Mad Man.
We talking about how to end this Boko Haram and this eeediot is busy thinking about 2015


Someone hold me before I Beat this man one day.

Haba!!! Him no dey tire?

DonaldGenes:
This Man cc Tinubu, iCan now see is an inveterate Mad Man.
We talking about how to end this Boko Haram and this eeediot is busy thinking about 2015


Someone hold me before I Beat this man one day.

Haba!!! Him no dey tire?

edogirl2:

INEC needs to explain how over 1 million voters suddenly disappeared from the voters list.


There is more than a whiff of PDP/INEC mago mago in this. Fashola and Mr Tinubu have very good reasons to be concerned.

We the people must resist this clear sign of collusion between PDP and INEC to rig in Lagos.

luvmijeje:


INEC should respond to this.

PVC was distributed in my locality today and I didn't have any issue collecting mine. The only issue I noticed was that a high percentage of people have lost their temporary voters card but they were told to come tomorrow with 2 passport photos.

DonaldGenes:
This Man cc Tinubu, iCan now see is an inveterate Mad Man.
We talking about how to end this Boko Haram and this eeediot is busy thinking about 2015


Someone hold me before I Beat this man one day.

Haba!!! Him no dey tire?

Chigold101:
please do u live in Lagos state? If you live in Lagos state, your report iscontradicting Thiefnibu‘s report. That can be dangerous oh. Becareful before your head disapears or before theu deport u or send you to exile o.

luvmijeje:


I do live in Lagos. Believe it or not Tinubu is doing his job as a party agent and an opposition figure. That's the beauty of having a strong opposition. The common man will always be the winner.

Chigold101:
bros no vex o. is progressing falsehood a sign of strong opposition? How will common man win in a war that is built on lies?

luvmijeje:


Where are the lies? He made a strong allegation backup with fact. Our job as Nigerians is to force INEC to respond to this allegation and not start defending foolishly.

Amanwulu1:
They all knw dat gej is d obstacle btw dem and enslaving us. They all knw they can't win gej.

Amanwulu1:
Inec is an independent body.

Alphaoscar:




You are a confirmed goblin and evil forest should be your resting place. shameless idiat.

atlwireles:
The truth of the matter is, APC kept quiet too long about Jega's INEC. When the allocation of voting booths was a burning issue, I never heard one APC leader come out and admonish INEC. Silent becomes consent, now we have this.

This is not a PDP issue, Jega needs to explain these names disappearing from the voting register.

Caseless:
headless frog, u did not make sense.

jamace:
This looter is still talking? I wonder how Buhari will FIGHT corruption with people like Tinubu.

enigmaotr:

Remind me, who appointed Jega? So much for independence. What we have is NEC not INEC.