The governor disclosed this to journalists yesterday after his visit to the commission’s headquarters at Magbon, off Presidential Boulevard, Abeokuta, the state capital, where he had gone to monitor progress on the Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs collection.
He accused INEC of deliberately importing about 625,000 names of registered voters who are not from the state.
Amosun queried the presence of “alien and fictitious cards” in Ogun since November last year and urged the electoral body to return them to wherever they were brought into the state.
He lamented that only 40 per cent of registered voters in the state had collected PVCs, wondering why INEC chose to distribute the cards piecemeal to Ogun electorate, whereas same were being distributed in bulk in other states of the federation. According to him, “Of the newly registered voter cards about 150,000 were distributed out of about 450,000. As at today, the total number of PVCs collected stands at 639,000 out of 2.9 million.”
The governor expressed sadness that despite formally writing to INEC last December 15 to correct the anomaly observed, such as missing names, the agency did not deem it fit to dignify him with a reply.
Amosun cited some local governments – Ijebu – Ode, Odogbolu, Ado – Odo – Ota, Yewa North, Yewa South, Ipokia, Abeokuta North, Abeokuta South, among others, as places where voters had been unable to access their cards.
“We are appealing to INEC to please release our cards; we have demonstrated that if they bring our cards we will collect, so they have over 280,000 of the new cards. Even when they were distributing the cards in November, they would say: ‘You will see your name and get the card. In one week, it will be ready’, but between November and now we have not seen it.
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