Osun Poll: APC Condemns INEC’s Delay In Release Of Voter Cards

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has decried the delay in distributing the permanent voters cards to registered voters in the state ahead of the August 9, 2014, governorship election in Osun State, warning that it might be a ploy to disenfranchise voters. “INEC has been painfully slow in processing the permanent voters cards, and one can only hope that the electoral body is not doing this deliberately to disenfranchise voters, especially in opposition strongholds,’’ the party said in a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by its national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. “The slow processing of the permanent voters cards has in particular hit the central senatorial district of the state, and has affected those who had earlier registered as well as those who registered this year,’’ it said. APC said INEC has continued to tell those who throng its offices in the state to collect their permanent voters cards that the cards were not ready, without giving an indication of when they would be ready for collection.