Desperate politicians have resorted to
bribing and luring voters with gifts to encourage them to collect their
Permanent Voter Cards for next week’s election.
The Independent National Electoral
Commission on Wednesday had said that it had....
distributed 43,098,000 PVCs
representing 65.5 per cent of total voters registered for the February
general elections.
But many voters have expressed fears
that they might not be able to vote since 35 per cent of PVCs are still
with the electoral body. Besides, a lot of voter cards issued by INEC
are yet to be collected.
Investigation also revealed that
Politicians have been bribing voters, who registered more than once, to
encourage them to get multiple permanent voter cards so as to enable
them to win more votes for their parties in the next general elections.
The politicians are offering between N3,
000 and N5, 000 as “mobilisation money” to each of the eligible voters
to persuade them to either get multiple PVCs or collect their PVCs.
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