Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State Wednesday accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of having perfected sinister plans to disenfranchise about 800,000 eligible voters in the state by substitution and omission of permanent voters’ cards, saying that 625,000 alien PVCs had been brought into the state by the electoral body. While expressing disappointment shortly after he paid unscheduled visit to INEC secretariat located in Abeokuta, the governor alleged that the Commission had substituted 625,000 alien PVCs with the normal PVCs of eligible voters and was yet to provide 300,000 PVCs out of 450,000 newly registered voters, adding that the percentage of PVCs distributed so far was 40percent. “In Ogun State, we’ve just managed to collect about 40percent, it was about 36percent before and as of today, only about 40percent have been distributed, I have been interfacing with INEC and I have had course to write a letter to the chairman of INEC on December 19, 2014 and I enumerated all that has been happening as far as Ogun State is concerned in the run to this election,” he said. “Unfortunately, I have been here since morning and they still has no good story to tell us, let me tell you, somebody somewhere, I don’t know, probably does not want us to vote in Ogun State, they want to make sure that at least 40percent or more do not vote in Ogun State,” the governor added.
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Amosun further said: “In the last election, we had about 1.8 million, they came back to say they are removing what they call double registration and a lot of anomalies they said they noticed; when they did that, they took away about 500,000 and reduced Ogun State to about 1.3 million and we said no problem, if you said there will be opportunities for people to re-register, which they did. “When they did that, from their record, it was almost 450,000 of the new registration and if you add that to the 1.3 million, it takes us back to about 1.8 million or thereabouts. “In my ward 11 in Abeokuta North, people are going there every day and people, who were born there don’t find their names, they just saw fictitious names, those cards are not Ogun State cards… we know ourselves in all the places, they should take those registers of 2011 and compare it with what they have given us now. “I don’t know how it happens, they just brought names, and those are not Ogun State people. As we speak, we can’t collect what is not our own I will prove some- thing to them to let them know that those cards are not our own and the new registration that they did. “I am not speaking as APC but for the good people of Ogun State and I would encourage other political parties to join in this call unless they have hidden agenda as we speak today, they have just brought about 159,000, we still have also, 280,000 that we have not seen and from the ones they brought, al- most everything has been collected because those are our cards.”
