The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was urged on Wednesday by the national leadership of the Labour Party, LP, to deploy all of their resources to guarantee that Nigerians receive their Permanent Voters Cards prior to the general election.
Spokesman for the LP Presidential Campaign Council, Dr. Yunusa Tanko, urged INEC to enhance staffing and expand collection centers to all pulling units in the nation during a press conference in Enugu to announce the party’s next rally on Thursday in the state.
“I am disappointed on the level of issuance of Voters Card across the country. The turnout is much but the process of collecting it is quite difficult. The number of uncollected cards remain the same because the process is very difficult. The queue is very much in every collection center but few people were able to collect it at the end of the day. They are frustrating the people.
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“INEC should use any legal power to shift the closing date for collection or any other means to make sure they didn’t disfranchise people from voting,” he said.
Dr. Tanko also voiced his displeasure with the upcoming “The Titans” reality show on BBnaija, claiming that politicians were funding it in order to keep young people from voting in the general election.
“We want to alert the ever vibrant Nigerian youths of the hidden agenda behind the new reality show tagged:’The Titans’ designed to hit the airwaves by January 15 barely 40 days to general elections.
“We have credible information that it’s being sponsored by one of the major opposition parties to distract the Nigerian youths from changing the leadership that has placed them in perilous times laced with abject poverty.
“Information made available to us revealed that the son of one of the presidential candidates in active collaboration with others visited South Africa to hatch this plan,” he said.
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He revealed that the opposition, which has a fierce hatred for Nigerian youngsters, is threatening the LP, a party whose primary goal is to make the nation one where poverty, unemployment, and “japa” will be considered as taboo.
“Big Titan or whatever they may call it will distract the youths from taking what belongs to them now. The Big Brother Naija ended not long ago, why the ‘Titans’ now that we are facing a major election that will determine the future of the Nigerian youths?
“Any reality show now is laced with a lot of unforeseen dangers for the youths because their attention will be divided. As a party, we are not against reality shows because it helps the Nigerian youths to break the poverty line but for now, for the common good of all it should be shifted to another convenient date after the general elections must have been concluded.
“Those putting together a reality show at this time when we are counting days to the general elections are enemies of the Nigerian youths and by extension all well meaning Nigerians. The question Nigerians should be asking the organisers is whether they’re truly friends of the political entity known as Nigeria or enemies of progress.
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“Like I said earlier, this reality show was concocted and designed by a major opposition political party and at the right time we will unmask them to the Nigerian youths,” he said.
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