Delta PDP Carpets Omo-Agege Over Alleged Rigging Plans

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Delta State has taken the Omo-Agege Camapaign Organisaiton to the cleaners after it accused the state government of drawing up election rigging plans through the collection of PVC data of participants of its youth skill acquisition programmes.

GWG reports that the Omo-Agege Campaign Organisation had through its spokesman raised the alarm that participants of the Delta State Government’s skill acquisition programmes were being asked to provide details of their PVCs as part of their documentation for the exercise.

“There is no correlation between an applicant seeking skill acquisition and his PVC, as this only suggests that the PDP government is hellbent on rigging the forthcoming elections in the State”, the Omo-Agege Campaign had said in a statement issued by campaign spokesman, Ima Niboro.

Responding, the PDP through its State Publicity Secretary, Dr Ifeanyi Osuoza flayed the Omo-Agege Campaign over what it insinuated as its lack of knowledge of the sophistication of the voting system that has minimized rigging.

BVAS Makes Rigging Difficult – Delta PDP

Noting the introduction of BVAS, the PDP said:

“In fact, it rankles the sensibilities of intelligent, logical Deltans that Ima Niboro, with all his exposure and experience, as former Presidential spokesperson and Director General of the News Agency of Nigeria, will descend so low as to allege such a crude, illiterate and loquacious accusation and we challenge him to please do us Deltans and Nigerians alike, a big favour, by educating us on exactly how the collection of PVC will aid and facilitate the rigging of the 2023 election.

“We wait to hear and we are quite sure that even he will be ashamed, of his foolish explanations, if he attempts it.”

Explaining why the PVC was demanded of the skill acquisition participants, the PDP said:

“It is really not surprising that the likes of Ima Niboro, who are completely out of touch with the realities of the day, have not actually considered the fact that quite a sizable number of youths, particularly in the rural areas, may not have the need for a driver’s licence or an international passport, for obvious reasons.

“He is also quite ignorant of the reality that the tedious and cumbersome nature involved in procuring the National Identity card or the International passport have even discouraged majority of urban inhabitants from those establishments, so one can only imagine how rural dwellers will feel, like fish out of water surely, in the quest to seek these documents of identification.”

Ima Niboro’s Claim On Rigging Betrays Ignorance – Delta PDP

“But the most worrisome and embarrassing oversight which Ima Niboro has exhibited, is his ignorance that INEC actually took the registration of voters exercise to the rural areas and set up offices and structures in every electoral Ward in the country, where rural youths and those of voting age actually went to register and filled in all their personal details, in the Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise.

“And so, what other form of proper Identification would be better for a youth skills acquisition programme than the one in which every youth had the access and opportunity to be captured?

“Beyond the very important fact that the PVC as a means of identification, will ensure that more rural youths will have the advantage and opportunity to participate in the skills acquisition programme, it also added further impetus, relevance, and urgency to the effort to ensure that those youths, who were hitherto reluctant or lukewarm towards the registration exercise, will now be greatly encouraged by the prospects of benefiting from what ownership of a PVC can bring and indeed by extension, be strongly motivated, to fully participate in the electoral process by voting for the party that will continue to deliver more dividends of democracy to them,” the PDP said in dismissing the rigging plans as alleged by the Delta State chapter of the APC.

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