APC Planning To Disenfranchise Voters By Seizing PVCs- Kano NNPP

The Kano Chapter of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has raised over plans to disenfranchise voters by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, saying it uncovered party’s plans to reduce the number of people with Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, in the state by luring and seizing them from the original owners.

The allegation is contained in a communique signed by Garba Diso and Hamisu Ali and made available to journalists at the end of the NNPP Gubernatorial, Senatorial, House of Representatives, State House of Assemblies’ candidates and party executives sensitization workshop held on September 15 at Dutse Royal Hotel in Kano.

The party said it noted with dismay that for the first time in the history of governance in the state, the incumbent has turned government affairs into a family affair, as evidently seen in government policies and appointments.

The communique also said it was “more worrisome, sad and disastrous that the anointed APC Gubernatorial candidate has sworn by the Holy Qur’an to continue with these uninterrupted destructions of Kano State.”

The communique, in seeking quick solutions to the threat of disenfranchisement, urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to as a matter of urgency publish and paste the names of all uncollected PVCs in order to create awareness for the rightful owners to claim them.

Among other issues highlighted by the workshop were the “Destruction of the Educational System following the closure and de-boarding of unity schools; non-payment of all examination fees by the state government to WAEC, NECO, and NBAIS; delayed and non-payment of scholarship allowances to foreign and local students; and the creation of non-educationally friendly environment within school premises through the construction of corner shops in schools like Northwest University, Kano.”