INEC Chairman Alleges Plot To Clone Voters’ Cards For 2015 Polls, Launches Investigation

AHEAD of the  2015 general elections, Professor Attahiru Jega, Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, raised the alarm over attempts by some persons to clone the Permanent Voters Card, PVC, currently being issued by the electoral body.

Professor Jega made the disclosure while addressing civil society organisations at an interactive session organised by the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre, PLAC, in Abuja yesterday.

He said the commission became very vigilant after it was revealed that “some unscrupulous elements” wanted to use the just concluded governorship election in Ekiti State to test-run the cloned cards, which he said could pass as real ones.

He explained that it was in view of the development that INEC, on the election day, ensured that the register of distribution which he said contained names of all the electorate that were duly issued with the PVCs in Ekiti State, were produced at all the polling centres in the state.

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