Attack on INEC's office ill motivated to disfranchise Ebonyi citizens-CDHR

From Nwogha Ndubuisi, Abakaliki

Committee for the Defence of Human Rights CDHR) Ebonyi state branch has said the attack on the office of Independent National Electoral Commission,(INEC) in Izzi LGA was ill motivated to disfranchise electorates from participating in the upcoming general election. The human rights group who condemned in strongest term the burning of the Commission's office in Izzi Local Government appealed to INEC not to disfranchise citizens who registered from the area because of burnt voters card. According to statement issued by the state secretary, comrade Onyibe Jeremiah and made available to our correspondent described action as an attempt by desperate politicians to rig 2023 election. "Burning of INEC offices across Nigeria is a desperate plan by some politicians to rig 2023 election by disenfranchising citizens from the areas from performing their constitutional rights and by that give them opportunity to install their preferred candidate against the general interest of the masses. "We have observed that some INEC offices across the country where sensitive materials including Permanent Voters Card (PVCs) are kept is now target point for destruction in order to deprive citizens from performing their constitutional rights, and, there by, giving them opportunity to massively rig the forth coming election. He added, "The destruction of undetermined number of voters card in the largest and most populated local government in Ebonyi state is politically motivated inorder to disfranchise citizens and people will resist such unholy move. "We however call on INEC chairman Mahmoud Yakubu to ensure that no citizen is disfranchised because of the burnt PVC since the biometrics is already captured and can be validated during the voting , there is no good reason to deny any citizen from performing their constitutional right." he further emphasized.