Niger state claims 1million names are missing from the Permanent Voters Card list

  Niger state claims 1million names are
missing from the Permanent Voters Card list
The APC, in a statement by its spokesman in Niger state,
Jonathan Vatsa, said it discovered that the particulars of
voters in seven wards of Shiroro, Gbako and other local
government areas were missing and that the voters might not
get their PVC. He also called for the removal or redeployment
of the state's INEC commissioner.
"The truth is that the areas excluded from the PVC
collection have always been the stronghold of APC in
previous elections in the state. The inference now falls in
perspective on why in the last Niger-East by-elections
some of our supporters could not cast their votes
because their names were missing from the voter
register."
What worries us in the APC is that INEC said that there
should be continuous voter registration. The pertinent
question is, what becomes of those who have earlier
registered but their names could not be traced on the INEC
register, as many of our supporters may be disenfranchised
before 2015 general elections thereby giving way for rigging
and all other manipulations of elections Niger State is
notorious for.
We are not sure of the neutrality of the Resident Electoral
Commissioner, Dr Emmanuel Onucheyo, who has subjected
himself to the whims and caprices of the government in
power. That has justified our previous call that if a free and
fair election is to be conducted in Niger State the Resident
Electoral Commissioner in the state must be removed or
redeployed to where his material craving will be tolerated,' the
statement said.