LAGOS—THE Jimi Agbaje Campaign Organisation, JACO, yesterday, accused officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of allegedly colluding with the All Progressives Congress, APC, to disenfranchise non-indigenes resident in Lagos.

JACO alleged that INEC personnel, acting the script, were undertaking discriminatory distribution of PVCs by withholding the cards of non-indigenes largely suspected of being unsympathetic to ruling party.

But in a swift reaction, INEC dismissed the allegations saying it does not have time to engage in such method.

Although the organisation commended INEC for extending the collection of PVCs to Monday, it said that the extension would make no meaning should officials themselves become a stumbling block to an identified set of voters.


Describing the trend as immoral, illegal and xenophobic, JACO demanded that the commission should wade into the matter, restore normalcy and bring perpetrating officials to book.

A statement by JACO’s Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Felix Oboagwina, said the organisation was daily inundated with reports from aggrieved members of the public, alarmed that non-indigenes living in local governments where the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, may enjoy massive support were being denied their PVCs by INEC personnel.

The statement reads: “These unscrupulous INEC workers deny cards to potential and duly registered voters whose names do not sound Yoruba or Hausa. Our fear is that at the end of the day, these unclaimed PVCs will be used to do proxy-voting for APC or end up in the lagoon or refuse dump.”

“We are witnessing a xenophobic, discriminatory and dangerous move by these INEC officials. They have embarked on a voyage of illegality. The Nigerian Constitution says that no one should be discriminated against on the basis of sex, status or tribe. But these xenophobic, discriminatory and nepotistic officials have undertaken to violate these provisions against their own good conscience and against the Electoral Act and the Nigerian Constitution.

“However, whenever they show up like other people to collect their PVCs, the officials take a look at the names on their PVCs, and where they are neither Yoruba nor Hausa names; they are told that their cards did not come with the pile being distributed at the time.


“We are not comfortable with the situation,” the statement said. “It appears like part of a grand plan by these officials to ensure APC falsely has a good result in their areas by all means.”


Reacting to the allegations, INEC challenged Mr. Agbaje to show proof of the allegations.

Spokesperson of the Commission in Lagos, Mr. Femi Akinbiyi berated the PDP candidate saying: “It is not true. When do we have such time to separate indigenes and non indigenes? We are too busy for such. Newsmen can verify it themselves.”

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A lot of people have been complaining about the same issue....
Why is Tinibu afraid of non indigenes ?

PDP always looking for trouble where there is none. Look at how the ruined the career of Onnoghen

I thought dis wasn't true until I heard similar stories from several ppl and their ordeal in trying to get it

Read above it..


I just tire for PDP.

They act as if any disenfranchised vote is automatically theirs.

In many cases, the card holders really can't be bothered.

Waste of time, Agbaje will still win, O to gee in Lagos.

Show them Baba Tinubu!

The other time the same idiots tried to stop Abuja Indigenes from campaigning in "ipob dominated" market. Buhari must win

ps: I know this is a pdp propaganda. We dont need to rig

the biggest fail of this administration is having no regard for human life. It's like they are not even moved. At least 20,000 people that didn't have to die have died under Buhari's watch. Several towns and villages have been completely wiped out by herdsmen in Nigeria and Buhari has refused to declare these herdsmen as terrorists. He declared IPOB as terrorists in 2017 even though they did not kill anybody. If the herdsmen were not fulanis like himself, a lot of people believe he would have declared them as terrorists. But he has refused to. These herdmen displaced more than 80,000 people in Benue state alone.

this guy should just concentrate on electioneering than words trading.....this is his last chance n must fight more hard for it. .