The Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, claims that politicians who purchase Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) to rig the polls are wasting their time 68 days out from the general elections of the following year.
Festus Okoye, National Commissioner for INEC and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, made this announcement yesterday while taking questions on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics program.
Remember how the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, an NGO, claimed that politicians were buying PVCs from low-income voters to rig the upcoming elections?
The Bimodal Voter Registration System (BVAS), according to Okoye, will reject biometric information from people who are not the original owners of traded PVCs.
He said it was impossible for some desperate politicians to rig the upcoming election, as they are already gathering PVCs.
“Anybody who is purchasing a permanent voter card is just engaging in an exercise in futility. The only thing any person can do is to make sure the voter does not vote on election day but for you to come to the polling unit on election day with voter’s card belonging to someone else, and you attempt to vote with it, that is an impossibility, the BVAS will not capture your fingerprint,” Okoye said.
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