The Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee
of the Peoples Democratic Party has enjoined Nigerians to come out and register
in the forthcoming Continuous Voters Registration.
The factional group said it would afford them opportunity to
throw out the ruling All Progressives Congress from power in 2019.
It also urged the management of the Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC, to maintain neutrality during the exercise, which
opens nationwide on Thursday.
The spokesperson for the caretaker committee, Prince Dayo
Adeyeye, who stated these in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday, said Nigerians
were already tired of the APC failed leadership style.
According to him, “We want to inform Nigerians that this is
an opportunity for those who are suffering and undergoing the suffocating
hardship, poverty, hunger, comatose economy, insecurity, crass ineptitude,
gagging of the press and opposition leaders and members, and more atrocities;
to get registered in order to vote out this none performing APC-led
Administration at all levels.
“We enjoin INEC to remain neutral, independent and unbiased
and allow all potential voters in the 774 local government areas in the Country
irrespective of their political leaning, gender, tribe or religion to
participate in the forthcoming Continous Voters Registration Exercise.
“We insist that INEC must avoid a repeat of the 2014 episode
where majority of Nigerians were disenfranchised.
“The Commission should allow the distribution of Permanent
Voters Card evenly to all zones of the Federation.”
Adeyeye said the revolution for what he described as a
‘genuine change’ has started.
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