2027: Group alleges midnight voter accreditation in Ideato, front-loading of BVAS devices

A governmental watchdog successful Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State, the Ideato Progressive Alliance, IPA, has raised an alarm implicit a disturbing incidental wherever an alleged voting workout has commenced successful immoderate communities successful the LGA, demanding contiguous probe by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

The Alliance alleged that individuals suspected to beryllium unit of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, moved astir communities successful the area, including Urualla, precocious Wednesday, conducting an unauthorised and amerciable elector accreditation exercise.

It explained that credible accusation it received showed that residents were summoned with their Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, fixed ₦5,000 each, had their elector details copied, and were subsequently instructed to thumbprint an physics instrumentality identified by eyewitnesses arsenic a BVAS device.

A connection sent to our analogous by the President of IPA, Ferdinand Nwosu, alleged that the cognition progressive 4 vehicles.

“We person obtained video recordings of the incidental and are releasing them to the nationalist arsenic grounds requiring urgent investigation," the radical insisted

“IPA considers this improvement highly unsafe and an affront to the integrity of the electoral process successful Ideato. No governmental officeholder, candidate, governmental enactment oregon backstage idiosyncratic has the authorization to organise an autarkic elector accr...