Through Luminous Jannamike
The African Democratic Congress Presidential Marketing campaign Council (ADC-PCC) has advised Nigerians to gather their Everlasting Voter Playing cards (PVCs), vowing to withstand makes an attempt to control the 2027 common election in favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The council advised eligible electorate to not be discouraged by means of claims that their votes would no longer rely, insisting that staying clear of the polls would handiest undermine their energy to resolve who governs them.
In a commentary on Friday, the ADC-PCC’s Director of Media and Exposure, Kola Ologbondiyan, described the narrative of predetermined election effects as a ploy to suppress voter turnout, alleging that it used to be being promoted by means of APC brokers.
“Pass and acquire your PVC. Your voter’s card is your energy and your ensure that you’re going to vote on January 16, 2027,” Ologbondiyan mentioned.
He accused the APC of searching for to milk public fears about electoral manipulation on account of what he described as its deficient efficiency in executive, mentioning starvation, hardship and lack of confidence.
“The APC is aware of it can not win a unfastened, truthful and credible election after plunging Nigerians into starvation, hardship and lack of confidence. For this reason it desires Nigerians to imagine that effects shall be written. This is a lie. The technology of writing ends up in resort rooms is long past ceaselessly,” he mentioned.
Ologbondiyan mentioned the amended Electoral Act, the Bimodal Voter Accreditation Gadget (BVAS), the INEC End result Viewing Portal (IReV) and larger political consciousness amongst Nigerians supplied safeguards towards electoral fraud.
“Each polling unit shall be safe. Each vote shall be counted, and each and every vote will rely. Nigerians are extra made up our minds than ever to take again their nation during the poll,” he mentioned.
The council advised conventional rulers, spiritual leaders, formative years teams, ladies’s organisations and civil society teams to mobilise eligible Nigerians to gather their PVCs and withstand voter apathy.
It additionally pledged that the ADC, underneath its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, would deploy polling brokers to each and every polling unit national to watch the method, give protection to ballots and problem makes an attempt to subvert the folk’s mandate.