Osun AC Calls For Fresh Voters’ Registration Exercise
Apr 11th, 2010 | By Bankole Alao David | Category: NEWS
Osun State chapter of the Action Congress (AC) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to jettison the existing voters’ registers used for the last general elections in the state, saying that the state deserves a new registration exercise with a view to having near-credible elections in the state.
Addressing journalists in Osogbo, the state capital on Thursday, the state party chairman, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti said that though the INEC Chairman, Professor Maurice Iwu had announced that there would be a fresh registration exercise in only seven states of the country, adding that nobody knows whether Osun State was inclusive or not, a situation which he called the basis for the call for a fresh registration exercise in the state.
Adeoti stated further that there were several irregularities in the voters registers used for the last general elections and rerun elections recently conducted in the state, revealing that it had been discovered that in the existing voters’ registers, some names appeared more than once, just as he stated that such names were deliberately repeated by the INEC in connivance with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state with a view to paving way for inflation and manipulation of election results.
With near-accurate compilation of voters’ registers, the AC chairman noted that the tendency of near free and fair election would be guaranteed; adding that success or failure of any election begins with the compilation of the names of eligible voters.
He said: “The AC had suffered the evil consequence of the greatly flawed voters’ register, compiled by INEC in collusion with the PDP in 2006. This is obvious in the result of the physical inspection of the electoral materials used in the acknowledged “great flawed” 2007 general elections as detected by our legal team before the election petition retrial tribunal.
“It is a fact that many units in many local government council areas, especially ten, which veracity of the results were currently being challenged before the retrial tribunal, had the figures of voters on their registers inflated with fake names and fake photographs. Many celebrities, who are non-indigenes or residents of Osun State are registered voters here. Many under-aged are part of INEC compiled voters. School pupils are not left out of the malady of the fraudulently compiled voters’ register. There are repetitions of one name or several names in the Osun voters’ registers. Several names are outrightly concocted with no bearing to the environment of the registration centre and are put in the voters’ registers.
“There are many names in the voters’ registers of Osun State which have no passport photographs, but were recorded to have voted on April 14, 2007; there were obvious similar finger thumbprint against so many names, an indication of one individual affixing his thumbprints on many names. It was discovered that 40 per cent of the names in the voters’ register in Ife-Central Local Government Council Area were, allegedly lifted, wholesale from another local government council areas.
“By a way of confirmation of these willfully committed errors, you will recall during the cross-examination of PDP witnesses during the retrial tribunal proceedings, in one unit in Ora-Igbomina, names were repeated severally, simply to swell the figure of the voters’ register. You will recall that in the same Ora-Igbomina, a particular PDP leader and serving member of Oyinlola’s administration had the name of his wife who died ten years ago on the voters’ register compiled in 2006 and voted. Outrageous votes figure was returned from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife despite the fact that the institution was on forced holiday several weeks to the election”, Adeoti narrated.
The party chairman recalled that the AC, subsequent to the verdict of the Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State which ordered rerun elections in Osogbo State Constituency and Osun East Senatorial District has filed a suit before a Federal High Court in Lagos, asking the court to compel INEC to revise and update the voters’ registers as provided for in the Electoral Act 2006.
He said that though, the court ordered that the rerun polls should be put on hold until the determination of the substantive suit, the INEC went ahead to conduct the election, a situation which he described as another dirty job by the INEC to assist the PDP to claim fraudulent victory.
The AC boss then stated that when the INEC decided to harken to the call of his party to have a fresh voters’ registration, an utmost transparent process should be adopted.
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There may never be a free and fair election in Osun state without a fresh voter’s registration exercise. The PDP has cornered the voters card in their so called catchment areas that is enough to render any voting polls an exercise in futility. The result of the polls that were recorded in the so called catchment areas as tendered at the electoral tribunal is instructive.
This is the register that was discovered to contain: 1. the name of Chief Omotara severally repeated 2. the names like Obama, Gaddaffi, Saddam Eussein, S
This is the register that was discovered to contain: 1. the name of Chief Omotara severally repeated 2. the names like Obama, Gaddaffi, Saddam Hussein, Sanni Abacha, Annini, Obafemi Awolowo, e.t.c 3. Names with no photograph, 4. A photograph with several names, 5. Several names with the same photograph and a lot of irregularities. What a failed INEC! What a failed PDP! What a failed government.