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PDP tells INEC not to experiment with coming elections
 
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Fri, 13 Feb 2015   ||   Nigeria,
 

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, not to use Nigerians for experimentation in the use of the Electronic Card Readers for the 2015 general elections.
The National Chairman of PDP, Alhaji Ahmadu Adamu Mu’azu disclosed this when he granted audience to the African Delegation to the general elections.

‎According to a statement signed by his Press Secretary, Tony Amadi, the PDP National Chairman expressed confidence in the ability of the commission led by Prof. Jega to conduct a transparent, free and fair election but
strongly advised INEC to ensure that the card readers were test run before it is deployed for use at the March 28 and April 11 elections.

According to Muazu, " the use of Electronic Management Tool (EMT) to be used for the 2015 elections is welcome but we are not ready to be used as guinea pigs.
"INEC must ensure a successful test run before approving it for use in the elections", he said stressing that INEC management must get their sums right before introducing the measure.

Mu’azu told a delegation of Africa Union election observers led by AU Commissioner for Political Affairs, Dr. Aisha Abdullahi who visited his office at Wadata House in Wuse Zone 5 that “what is happening today in INEC has been highlighted to them via letters from our party to his office on so many issues including the fraud of PVC we anticipated, including the manipulation.

"We wrote INEC because we don’t want to be unruly behaviour because if it were the opposition, they would make a lot of noise and say a lot of things.”

The Chairman further told the delegation if “in their own sense of judgment, how does Professor Jega who is the leader of INEC exonerate himself from disenfranchising 23 million Nigerians and telling the world that he is ready for elections and we are saying that he is not ready.

"23 million out of the 68 million registered voters by his personal submission in the Council of State that was held last week to review the preparedness or otherwise of INEC to conduct the election; 23 million PVCs were either produced and not distributed or not produced at all. This must be highlighted and made known to the world.”

 

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