INEC Challenges Fani-Kayode to Support PVC Hoarding Claims with Evidence
The Independent National Electoral Commission has challenged the Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, to provide evidence after he claimed that the commission was deliberately preventing Nigerians from getting their permanent voters cards.
Fani-Kayode had said on Wednesday that many of the cards were still in China where they are being produced and that the INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega has ”strategically delayed their arrival to suit his electioneering permutations.”
The Chief Press Secretary to Jega, Kayode Idowu, on behalf of the INEC Chairman has now replied the claim, saying that Fani-Kayode should prove his allegations.
He said: “It is they that should produce proof that we have not produced the cards, because INEC has produced those cards and put them in the public domain. Anybody who says it is not like that should produce proof.
“We have extended the collection deadline and people need to make use of that opportunity to come out. INEC cannot drag people out of their houses to collect their PVCs. It is for INEC and the media to continue to sound it in the ears of people that they need to make judicious use of this time; otherwise, anyone who does not collect his card will disenfranchise himself.”
