ACN Raises Alarm Over Increase of Voters’ Numbers in Ondo INEC Register

The Akeredolu Campaign organisation (ACO) yesterday challenged the Independent Electoral Commission in Ondo State to explain to the good people of Ondo State how it came about 1,654,205 voters currently on parade by the electoral body.

In a statement signed by its Director of Media, Mr. Idowu Ajanaku, it was said that as of last registration in Ondo State in April, 2010, the total registration was 65,000 in Akoko North East.

It noted that it was worried over the alleged statement credited to the Ondo State INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr. Akin Orebiyi, during a stakeholders meeting at INEC office in Akure that there were names of voters whose photographs could not be found in the last elections but would be allowed to vote in the governorship poll.

According to the ACN political campaign “Orebiyi, 88 polling booths would be created to supplement the 135 existing ones in Akoko North East which Orebiyi claimed will be used by these voters whose photographs did not appear in the voters register”.

However ACO, wants to sound a note of warning to the Orebiyi led State INEC that Action Congress of Nigeria will not allow those whose photographs did not appear in the voters register to vote, as this is against the Constitution and the Electoral Act, saying that the creation of these sister’s polling booth is not necessary.

“To us, this could be capitalised upon by the drowning Labour Party to rig elections in the state. Is Orebiyi saying that the Mimiko led administration has succeeded in smuggling the result of their biometric registration exercise into the data base of INEC? Orebiyi himself confirmed that the electoral body only had fifty requests of Voter’s card transfer in the State.

“ACN will not allow the use of any illegal voter’s register in the State. ACN like other political parties in the State have the original list of voter’s register, and anything outside of that will not be accepted by ACN. INEC should keep to the rules, lest they cause chaos in the State”The statement declared