Nigeria: Between INEC, PVC and APC

29 January 2015
opinion

Musa Buhari asserts that INEC should be bold enough to admit its inefficiency It is quite disturbing to survey the scenario surrounding the presidential elections only to realise that the main source of political tension and indeed greatest threat to the nation's peace and stability is Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and its permanent voter cards (PVC) gamble.

Worse still, the All Progressives Congress (APC) whose bid for the nation's presidency has become synonymous with desperation and do-or-die posturing, has been quick to add the PVC palaver to its tinder box of explosive electioneering by obdurately insisting on February 14, even if this means disenfranchising up to 30 million voters. The looming disenfranchisement of a huge chunk of the electorate has understandably also heightened public consternation at the seemingly deliberate scuttling of the four-year routine of general elections by the inexplicable introduction of an innovative nuisance. All these contrived challenges have morphed into a monstrous menace with barely two weeks left before the elections and nobody seems to have the guts to put INEC in the dock.

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