Vice president to candidate of People Democratic Party (PDP) Peter Obi have come out to say that Independent national electoral commission (INEC) have disenfranchised 8 million voters from the Eastern part of Nigeria.
Peter Obi say these yesterday Tuesday when he was addressing press conference held in Onitsha, Anambra State.
According him, out of the 10 million registered voters in the zone, only about 20 per cent were able to cast their votes.
He further said, “You will recall that on election day, I said the process was clumsy and we also had a major problem with malfunctioning card readers. Most people couldn’t vote as a result.”
”When over 4,000 card readers got burnt, it became clear that something was wrong somewhere and the Independent National Electoral Commission could neither save the situation nor allow people to vote manually.
“But in some other parts of the country, people were allowed to vote manually and it was accepted by the electoral body.
“How can you tell me that states like Yobe and Borno produced more voters than Anambra and Ebonyi states put together? The two states have been at war.
I wonder how they got card readers that were working so well, despite the war situation in which they found themselves.” Obi noted that Nigeria failed to build on the achievements of the 2015 general elections.
Peter Obi is a vice presidential candidate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of PDP, that lost, in just concluded Presidential election held on 23rd of February 2019 across the country.
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