The joint President of the United Twins and Multiple Births Transformation in Nigeria, Anthony and Andrew Mamuzee Dixon, on behalf of other identical twins on Thursday in Abuja threatened to sue the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and its Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, over alleged disenfranchisement.

The twins through their counsel, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), in a letter addressed to Jega, stated that INEC refused to issue a Permanent Voters Card to one of them on grounds that Data Capturing Machine only captured one person.
They noted that an INEC staff had informed them that the machine cannot detect the difference between the two of them.
The letter read in part, “Our client informed us that on getting to their place of registration, one of the twins, Andrew gave the INEC official his temporary voter’s card. Upon going through their register for some few minutes, his permanent voter’s card was brought out by the INEC official and he signed for, and collected same.
“When it was the turn of the second twins, Anthony, he presented his temporary voter’s card to the INEC official who had earlier sorted out that of his twin brother.

“To our clients’ rude shock, bewilderment and dismay, the INEC official after over 30 minutes of search informed Anthony that they could neither find his name on the register, nor locate his permanent voters’ card.
“When our clients demanded to know why they could not use their biometric data recordings to detect that they were two separate individuals rather than the same person doing double registration, the man simply replied, “this is Nigeria”. Our clients were thoroughly shocked at this response.”

The twins said they would prevail on all twins in the country to boycott the 2015 general election.
The twins further called on INEC to forthwith issue Anthony his a PVC to enable him perform his fundamental and civil obligation as enshrined in Section 12(1) of the Electoral Act, 2011.
They further requested that the sum of N20 million be paid to them as compensation for the trauma, psychological depression and feeling of societal rejection they were subjected to.

“Be informed that if within 14 days from the date of your receipt of this letter, you fail, refuse to carry out our modest demands, we shall, without further recourse to you, issue a writ against your organisation, demanding N1 billion as general damages for the shame and low esteem that your organisation’s action has brought to bear on our clients. This will be in addition to issuing our client’s PVC and a letter of apology to be published in four leading national newspaper,” the letter read.

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