by Kolapo Olapoju
The Independent National Electoral Commission has implored the the Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, to go ahead and back his claim that the commission was deliberately preventing Nigerians from getting their permanent voters cards.
Fani-Kayode made the allegation at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, February 11, stating that the PVCs were yet to be imported into Nigeria from China, where they are being produced.
He had said: “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 (INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru) Jega has strategically delayed their arrival to suit his electioneering permutations.”
However, the Chief Press Secretary to Jega, Kayode Idowu, responded to the claim, saying that Fani-Kayode has an obligation to defend his allegations.
Idowu said: “It is they that should produce proof that we have not produced the cards, because INEC has produced those cards and put them in the public domain. Anybody who says it is not like that should produce proof.”
“We have extended the collection deadline and people need to make use of that opportunity to come out. INEC cannot drag people out of their houses to collect their PVCs. It is for INEC and the media to continue to sound it in the ears of people that they need to make judicious use of this time; otherwise, anyone who does not collect his card will disenfranchise himself.”
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