With barely 67 days to the general election, the Independent National Electoral commission, INEC says it is not happy over what it described as politicians ploy to bypass by the Bimodal Voter Registration System (BVAS) and buying of the permanent voter cards.
The electoral umpire says politicians who engage in buying of PVC are engaging in futile efforts and bent on manipulating the 2023 general election.
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According to INEC, the Bimodal voter registration system will reject biometric data of persons who are not original owners of the PVCs.
Recall that the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) and the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) had alleged that politicians are buying PVCs from poor voters to manipulate the next elections.
But the INEC National Commissioner, Festus Okoye has described as “an impossibility”, the plan by the desperate politicians who are already harvesting PVCs to rig the next election.
He stressed that possessing a PVC that does not belong to one is an electoral offense, saying that it is the obligation of security forces to pursue and prosecute such individuals.
The INEC commissioner further stated that polling units had been removed from powerful politicians’ shrines, churches, mosques, and houses in order to maintain election integrity.
He charged voters with supporting the commission’s efforts to secure free and fair elections in 2023 through shared responsibility and mandate protection.
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