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The Social Democratic Party in Ekiti State has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in Ekiti State to publish the names of prospectives voters whose registration were cancelled due to irregularities according to the electoral umpire.
This is contained in a statement credited to the Public Relation Officer of the Social Democratic Party in Ekiti State, Gani Salau today in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State capital urging the INEC to as a matter of urgency make it available within the time frame that the electorate are supposed to collect the Permanent Voter Cards for the forthcoming gubernatorial election.
The statement read: “We are appealing to the INEC Chairman, Professor Mamoud Yakub and Ekiti State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr Adeniran Tella and other officials concerned to make it public the names of prospectives voters that have been cancelled due to the alleged irregularities and this will make it clear to all and sundry and put to rest the allegation of connivance with the All Progressive Congress in the state that the PVCs were earlier collected in bulk”.
“With this, those that their registration were cancelled will be known why those whose names are not there will be able to hold INEC responsible for the whereabout of their PVCs “.
“Failure to do this within the time frame, we will not have other option than to hold INEC responsible”.
The Social Democratic Party in Ekiti State strongly demands from INEC to be free and fair to all political parties in the state which is one of the hallmarks of democracy”.
The image maker of the party had earlier alleged last week Monday that notable stalwarts of the All Progressive Congress had been to the INEC office, along new Iyin road in Ado Ekiti in connivance with the INEC to pack a reasonable percentage of the voter cards in order to disenfranchise the original owners and up till now, there has not been any official statement in contrary to the allegation.