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27 January 2015

APC To Jonathan: Declare Public Holiday For PVC Collection

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to declare a three-day public holiday for collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) nationwide.
The party further stated that it would resist attempts by President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration to postpone the forthcoming general election.

The national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who said this at a press conference yesterday in Lagos, argued that the reasons being advanced for the postponement were frivolous.
The party scribe said if the president and ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) were not terrified about the election and would want to scuttle the process, it should declare three days of public holiday for people to collect their PVCs.
He said, “The truth is that the forthcoming elections terrify the PDP and the Jonathan administration to such an extent that they are looking for ways to postpone or scuttle the polls. If indeed the Jonathan administration is genuinely concerned that many Nigerians have not received their PVCs, let it declare a three-day public holiday to give working Nigerians the opportunity to collect their PVCs.
“Let the government work with INEC to ensure that the PVCs are distributed at the polling units. If these steps are followed, within five days the distribution would have been completed.”
The APC spokesman added that APC had resolved that under no circumstance will the party accept a postponement, saying February 14 and 28 are as sacrosanct as May 29, the handover date.
He said, “The government has had four years to prepare, and the dates for the elections were announced over a year ago; therefore, there is no going back now.
“We note that the PDP has also said it is ready for the polls. That is good news. Let them now end their clandestine push for either postponement or the formation of an interim government, and stop engaging in scare and scandal mongering and dwell on issues ahead of the polls.”
He expressed his party’s confidence in the assurances by INEC that it was ready for the polls, and called on the Jonathan administration to give the electoral body all the support and resources it requires to organize successful elections.
“Any postponement of the election will mean that INEC is not independent and that it is being dictated to by the federal government, a position that will hurt the credibility of the electoral umpire.
“Finally, any postponement on the basis of the insurgency in the northeast will represent a victory for the terrorist group Boko Haram, and will create a constitutional logjam that will take Nigeria back to 1993. Believe me, we have travelled that route before and it was not pleasant,” Mohammed said.
Mohammed asserted that the plot in itself was one of the two-pronged approach being pursued by the PDP administration to either shift or scuttle the elections which are scheduled for February 14 and 28, and accused the Jonathan administration’s apologists of hiding under the facade that millions of Nigerians will be disenfranchised if the elections should proceed as scheduled.

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Source: Leadership

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