The Presidential Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers, has alleged that there are plans by some top politicians to buy up the Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) of eligible voters in the State.
It said the plan was aimed at ensuring that the Rivers people do not cast their votes for the PDP Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar in the upcoming elections.
The spokesperson of the campaign council in Rivers State, Dr. Lenoonu Nwibubasa, disclosed this in a signed press statement on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, the State capital.
Nwibubasa said: “We inform Rivers people about a sinister plot, already hacked by top politicians in Rivers State, to buy up the permanent voter’s cards of our citizens in order to deny them the opportunity to vote.
“This is ongoing in every local government; top politicians in every local government have been briefed to ensure that they buy up voter’s cards from members of the public.
“We, therefore, want to bring this information to dear citizens of our State that under no condition, including threat and financial inducement, should you relegate your fundamental right of casting your votes in the upcoming election by selling out your permanent voter’s cards to any individual.”
“We also want to call the attention of the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Rivers State, that there is a serious plan to receive bulk PVCs during the period of distribution from various INEC offices across Rivers State capital in the guise that they will take it to the constituencies and the wards to share.
“Reports reaching us is that those PVCs will not get to the owners and they are going to seize them, ensuring that they disenfranchise Rivers people.”
