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Bayelsa guber poll: Card reader is a tool for fraud – Niger Delta group alleges

Professor Mahmood Yakubu, new INEC Chairman
Professor Mahmood Yakubu, new INEC Chairman

CHINEDU WOSU YENAGOA

Frontline youth group, Niger Delta Youth Leaders Assembly, Thursday described the Independent National Electoral commission, INEC’s card readers as a tool for fraud.

The Assembly also accused the INEC of perfecting plans to rig the December 5 election in the state.

President of the group, Ambassador Kenneth Tonjo West stated this in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, during a chat with Our Correspondent on the forthcoming election in the state.

The group, however, vowed that the electorate in the state would totally resist the use of the card readers, noting that the process would lead to the rigging of the governorship election in favor of the APC.

The group insisted that the card readers cannot guarantee a smooth election. “We are going to resist every move by the Federal Government and INEC to rig the December 5th governorship election to APC.

“We are rejecting the use of the card readers in the Bayelsa state governorship poll scheduled for December 5, 2015 by INEC, he said categorically,” while accusing the APC in the state of colluding with INEC to rig the election against the wishes of the electorates.

The group equally decried the mode of distribution of the Permanent Voters Card in the state, saying that it was being done to favor Chief Timipre Sylva of the APC.

The group declared total support for the re-election bid of Governor Seriake Dickson of the Peoples Democratic Party, pointing out that as far as the Ijaw race is concerned, Chief Timipre Sylva is not the choice of the Ijaw race and urged its members to vote PDP in the forth coming poll.

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