The Action Congress
of Nigeria (ACN) has called on the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) to involve all stakeholders in the ongoing process of
removing double and multiple registrations from the newly-compiled
voter’s register to ensure transparency.
The party, in a
statement on Tuesday, said that the reports it is getting from the
various states where INEC has dispatched experts to run the AFIS
software which is to detect and remove double/multiple registration,
are not reassuring, noting that it could “in fact, ruin April’s general
elections.”
The party also
alleged that some of these experts were holed up in hotels in some
states, spending the money that those governments had allocated to
ensuring the AFIS system.
“This can only give
undue advantage to the unscrupulous people who carried out
double/multiple registration,” the statement said.
The party, therefore, called for the involvement of party
representatives in the process, and certification by local and
international observers, saying it could not be left to the so-called
‘experts’ alone.
