"Uncollected PVCs in is a plot to disenfranchise Igbo people in general elections" - Ohanaeze Youth

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC) accuses corrupt INEC officials of collaborating with mischief markers to deny numerous Igbo people their civic rights to vote in the general elections. 
The group calls on prominent Igbo people to mobilise in ensuring the massive collection of PVCs belonging to people from the southeast across the country.
The OYC alleges that prior to 2015 elections, APC controlled states in southwest deliberately disenfranchised Igbos by denying them their civic rights and access to collect their PVCs

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council (OYC) has alleged that there is a plot by some persons who are collaborating with corrupt INEC officials to prevent people of the southeast from participating in the general elections.

The group made the allegation in a statement issued in Abakaliki on Thursday, January 17, when it raised concerns over the reported huge number of uncollected Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) in the southeast and other parts of the country where Igbo people reside, Vanguard reports.

“OYC General Assembly frowns at the numerous uncollected PVCs across the Southeast and other parts of the country where Igbos reside; these uncollected PVCs are the efforts of mischief markers who are collaborating with corrupt INEC officials to deny numerous Igbo their civic right to vote the candidates of their choice in the 2019 general elections," the group said.

The OYC called on prominent Igbo people to mobilise in ensuring the massive collection of PVCs belonging to people from the southeast across the country.

“We call on our southeast governors, Christian Association of Nigeria, Muslim community, religious leaders, Southeast town unions presidents, NANS especially Zone B, traditional rulers, market unions, Biafra agitators who registered, to take it as a point of duty to ensure that all uncollected PVCs in the Southeast are collected without leaving any behind. Ohanaeze youths are watching keenly. We wish to use this medium to tell Ndigbo residing across the 36 states who registered to get their PVCs," the OYC stated.

The group alleged that prior to 2015 elections, APC controlled states in southwest deliberately disenfranchised Igbos by denying them their Civic rights and access to collect their PVCs.

The OYC said it had mandated its chairmen across the country to mobilize igbos alongside with prominent Igbo groups outside southeast to ensure that between 16th -21st January 2019, that every Igbo man or woman who registered in the last Voters registration that ended August 31st 2018 gets his/her PVCs before the deadline of January 21st 2019.

The group urged INEC to extend the deadline for the collection of PVCs till ending of January 2019 to enable those who travelled and registered in their hometowns to go and get it.

Meanwhile, a support group for Muhammadu Buhari has alleged that there is a plan by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, to infiltrate the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) with the aim of rigging the 2019 election,.

The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) made the allegation in a statement on Thursday, January, 17, saying Atiku and the PDP were plotting to sponsor their supporters to work within the commission as electoral officers. 

The BMO further alleged that PDP had earmarked massive resources to rig the presidential election slated for February, 2019.