Femi Fani-Kayode Accuses INEC Of
Colluding
With APC To Rig 2015 Elections
By buzzman on February 12, 2015 ·
Home » News » Femi Fani-Kayode
Accuses INEC
Of Colluding With APC To Rig 2015
Elections
The PDP Presidential Campaign
Organisation,
has accused the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC), of poor
handling of distribution of the
Permanent
Voter Cards (PVCs) to eligible voters.
Femi Fani-Kayode, Director of Media
and
Publicity of the organisation, made the
accusation at a news conference in
Abuja on
Wednesday.
He alleged that the INEC Chairman,
Attahiru
Jega , may be working in collaboration
with
some members of the opposition to
favour
the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“The matter is that INEC has failed in
its
responsibility to produce and
distribute PVCs
to about 34% of registered voters who
would
require the cards to vote in the
elections.
This brings us to the issue of statistics
of
PVC distribution and collection, which
we
believe Prof. Jega, as a person, acting
in
concert with some forces of
retrogression, is
playing games with.
We express our concerns today that
Jega
may have decided to aid the APC to rig
the
forthcoming elections through the
manipulation of the production,
distribution
and collection of PVCs,” he said.
According to Fani-Kayode, emerging
trends
had shown calculated attempts to
deprive
parts of the country that would vote for
President Goodluck Jonathan , of their
PVCs.
He said that parts of the country that
would
vote for the APC presidential
candidate, Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari, already have
their PVCs.
Fanyi-Kayode described as
unjustifiable,
attacks on the PDP, on the
postponement of
the scheduled Feb. 14 and 28 general
elections to March 28 and April 11 by
the
INEC.
According to him, the INEC chairman
hinged
the postponement on the security
advice
given by the National Security Adviser
with
respect to the Boko Haram insurgency
in the
North-East.
He said Jega deliberately failed to tell
Nigerians the whole truth that
underpinned
the postponement.
This, he added, provided the
opposition APC a
platform to accuse the PDP of
complicity in
the decision to postpone the elections.
He stressed that the decision to
postpone the
elections was INEC’s, since it was
constitutionally saddled with that
responsibility.
“The commission has done just that
and it
had hinted that it was having
challenges with
the distribution and collection of the
PVCs.
He stressed that the PDP had realised
“how
Jega dishonestly presented the
reasons for
the postponement of the elections.’’
According to Fani-Kayode, the major
reason
that informed INEC’s decision “was
the
deliberate attempt by the commission
to
disenfranchise over 23 million eligible
voters
who are yet to collect their PVCs.’’
He alleged that the collection rates of
PVCs in
the North Central, South-South, South
West
and South East regions assumed to be
pro-
Jonathan, were much lower with the
highest
being 57%.
He noted that the North West zone
which
includes Katsina, the home state of
Buhari,
APC presidential candidate, had the
highest
collection rate of 80 per cent.
He also claimed that the North-East
had a
75% collection rate when the three
states in
this zone, Adamawa, Borno and Yobe,
had
been under the attack of Boko Haram
insurgents.
This insurgency, Fani-Kayode noted,
had led
to the displacement of many residents
in the
zone.
“Pieces of information at our disposal
have
shown that Jega has had meetings
with APC
stalwarts in Dubai and other cities in
the
world to perfect this wanton
conspiracy
against 23 million eligible voters.
Besides, we have information that the
PVCs
that Nigerians are scrambling for are
not in
Nigeria and will not arrive before the
elections.
These PVCs are still in China and Prof.
Jega
has strategically delayed their arrival
to suit
his electioneering permutations’’, he
said.
He challenged Jega to show Nigerians
proof
that the Chinese company printing the
PVCs
had been paid in full by disclosing the
total
contract sum and the amount paid till
date.
He also charged him to show proof of
arrival
or expected date of arrival of all PVCs
for the
elections and tell Nigerians how he
could
have distributed 23 million PVCs
within five
days to elections, if not postponed.
“We hereby challenge Jega to be
honourable
and transparent to publish accurate
information on the state of PVCs and
how he
plans to distribute them before
elections.
He should respond to allegations of
partisanship and ineptitude, and live
up to his
responsibilities as an independent
election
umpire. If he refuses to do so, we may
end up
losing confidence in him’’, Fani-
Kayode said.

Mr president should sack him if he is hanging out with d devil(apc) GEJ till 2019!!!