The governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola has stated yesterday that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is doing everything possible to stamp out its population from voting in the 2015 general elections.
He claimed INEC intentionally denied about nine local government councils in the state the chance to partake in the exercise of securing their Permanent Voters Card (PVC). He also said that even him the executive governor of the state is advised by the INEC officials to wait for a fresh registration before he could access the PVC, owing to their inability to cover the designated areas in the state by distributing the permanent voters card.
Governor Fashola, further stated that in the distribution of the PVC which was slated for the 7 of November through the 9, was carried out to just 11 council areas instead of the 20 council areas that exist in the state, and that the remaining 9 local government councils is scheduled to be given the PVC starting from 28th to 30th of November, but it's unfortunate that the turn events is not exactly what was bargained earlier.
In his words, “They said the exercise would take place between the 7th and the 9th of November; we mobilised, we spent money. I addressed the state at least not less than twice, we held stakeholders’ meeting just to get people ready. We put all the resources out there only for INEC to change the game,” he decried.
He then said the INEC should retract its step and do things properly, because the state as a matter of fact will never accede to this kind of treatment.
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