The All Progressives Congress in Cross River State has challenged the Independent National Electoral Commission to arrest and prosecute all those alleged to be buying Permanent Voter Cards from the electorate in the state.

The party also tasked the relevant law enforcement agencies to take the bold step of assisting INEC in arresting the buyers which it alleged are agents of the Peoples Democratic Party.

But reacting, the state PDP chairman, Mr. John Okon, said the allegation was not true, adding that the APC had resorted to propaganda after failing to campaign in any local government area ahead of the elections.

In an interview in Calabar on Thursday, the state Secretary of APC, Mr. Victor Ebong, cautioned the electorate against selling their PVCs for whatever reason, adding that those who sold theirs risked being disenfranchised.

He said, “The PDP has been going about buying PVCs from members of the electorate with the aim of manipulating the polls in their favour. What they do is to go about purchasing these PVCs in our stronghold.

“In fact we hear that they are targeting at least 20 members of the electorate from our stronghold who are actually our supporters and sympathizers and if you multiply that figure by the 2,283 polling units across the state, you know what number of people would have been disenfranchised as a result of the manipulation of their names and data in the card reader mechanism.

“Giving out your PVC means you have sold your birthright to the devil for a porridge of beans and it only remains what you’ll tell your conscience when the celebration of change comes up that you did not participate in,” he stated.

Also, the state Chairman of the APC, Mr. Usani Usani, described the purchase and collection of the PVC VIN numbers as “criminal and antithetical to democratic successes in the country.”

Usani urged INEC and law enforcement agencies to take concrete steps to stop the development and arrest such persons to justify the need for a credible election in the country.

In his reaction, the state PDP chairman challenged the APC to also purchase PVCs from electorate if they think that was what the party was doing.

Okon said, “If they think we are buying PVCs let them go and buy as well. They are not campaigning in Cross River State, yet they are making noises. I am sure they are making noise for their leaders at the national level to think they are working. We (PDP) have been canvassing for votes from electorate through campaigns. We are not buying PVCs.”


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actually I have nothing to add but just to say....

GMB 2015

In other words arrest APC the perpetual perpetrator.

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In other words arrest APC the perpetual perpetrator.

funny