Ahead of the commencement of Continuous Voters’ Registration in Edo State, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state has called for immediate redeployment of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Head of ICT in Edo, alleging that plans are underway to compromise the process in favour of the People Democratic Party (PDP). Prince Peter Uwadiae Igbinigie, the Edo State APC Publicity Secretary made the allegation through a Press Statement, made available to journalists in Benin. Igbinigie alleged that the party got it from a grapevine that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) inconvenience with some officials of INEC in the state are planning to rig the incoming exercise in favour of the PDP.
Igbinigie alleged: “We have on good authority and from multiple sources that some gullible officials of INEC in most of the 18 local government areas that make up our state, have approached the outgoing Edo State government to provide them with ‘logistics’ for the CVR. “In anticipation, these unpatriotic INEC officials have promised to allow the PDP unfettered access to INEC data capturing machines. “It is also in consonance with the all-embracing expectation, that all political actors including political parties are seamlessly expected to operate in an atmosphere devoid of compromise, inducement and other unfavourable antics that shall impugn on the revered integrity of the system”.
According to Igbinigie, the APC, consequently, demanded for strict complian.