At least 61 political parties
have kicked against the draft released by the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) on election guidelines.
Ikenga Ugochinyere, publicity
secretary of the inter-party advisory council, said in a statement that the 61
parties made their displeasure known in a petition submitted to INEC on Friday.
According to Ugochinyere, the
parties disagreed with INEC on eight clauses which they said “will ruin the
2019 elections”.
Among the clauses is the
simultaneous accreditation and voting processes which INEC introduced for the
elections.
“Political parties demand
retention of 2011 and 2015 separate accreditation time and separate voting time
to help forstall rigging with the presence of voters at the polling unit
instead of INEC 2019 simultaneous accreditation and voting,” he said.
“Political parties demand
announcement of accreditation figures by 12 noon on election day and recorded
in a signed form and given to party agents before voting starts to forstall
doctoring of election figures during collation.”
The statement added that the parties
demanded end of PVC collection 10 days to election and the disclosure of the
total number of PVCs collected based on various polling units.
“Political parties rejects the
clauses in the guideline which allows unduly accredited voters to vote especially
the clause that allows voters with PVC whose name is not in the register of
voters to vote,” it further read.
“Political parties demand
transparency in collation and transmission of results with accredited
representatives of election observers and political parties monitoring.
“Political parties reject the
creation or usage of secret polling units called voting point settlement and
demand full list and location of such units.”
The parties also demanded the
redeployment of Amina Zakari, a national commissioner at INEC, as head of the
collation centre.
They sought her replacement with
Okechukwu Ibeanu, federal commissioner in charge of operations, “to ensure
credibility and balancing”.
“Parties threaten to pass vote of
no confidence on INEC chairman if he goes ahead to release the contentious
guideline on Monday without further consultation with Political Parties
Chairmen,” the statement read.
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