Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain,
Dennis Adikwuru, has said that for free and
fair elections to be conducted next month
and April, there is need for President
Goodluck Jonathan to appoint a new
chairman for the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC).
Adikwuru, a former Senior Special
Assistant (SSA) to Imo State governor,
Rochas Okorocha, before he defected to
PDP, maintained that the present INEC
Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega, “has, from
his actions and inactions, demonstrated
that Nigeria will be thrown into a serious
crisis if he conducts the 2015 general
elections”.
In a statement made available to Sunday
Independent in Lagos at the weekend,
Adikwuru traced Jega’s actions to the
voter registration, when he allegedly
deployed more logistics and personnel to
the North, which according to him, boosted
the northern voter strength.
In contrast, Adikwuru, who is one of Team
Leaders for the PDP governorship
candidate in Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha, in
Aboh Mbaise, said, “Jega withdrew and
restricted logistics and personnel to the
wards in the south as against the polling
units in the north and today, we have the
north taking undue advantage over the
south”.
Adikwuru stressed that the distribution of
Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) had been
concluded in the North far ahead of the
South where, according to him, only about
70 per cent distribution has been achieved
in the South.
He alleged INEC staff deployed to the
North for the distribution of the PVCs
ended up dumping the cards at designated
leaders’ houses in the North, while they
made it difficult for southerners to collect
their cards up till this moment.
On the use of card reader machines in the
coming elections, Adikwuru said Jega
cannot be experimenting with the card
readers in such crucial elections, alleging
that the card readers are Jega’s master
plan to cause confusion in the elections.
He challenged Jega to tell Nigerians which
network provider will power the card
readers “at this time when poor network
rules the urban centres, while the rural
communities which have higher voter
concentration, have no service at all’.

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