THE Ogun State governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prince Rotimi Paseda, has appealed to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to disenfranchise him in the general elections.
Paseda in a statement made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, on Wednesday, begged the electoral body to produce his Permanent Voter Card (PVC) for him to exercise his civic responsibilities.
Paseda said he approached the Commission for the replacement of his PVC since last August, saying that the body was yet to make the card available for use in the elections.
He said “The PVC with Area code number: 27-17-14-003 and VIN: 90F5-B159- 6641- 6087-233 Paseda, Olatunde Rotimi was used to vote during the year 2015 general elections without any complaints.
“An Electoral Officer in the local government area attended to my complaint, collected the original PVC after making a photocopy of the same card and advised that I should be checking for a reprint of the card.
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“To my surprise, I have been visiting the Odogbolu area office of INEC to see how to pick my PVC since then till today.
“Surprisingly I was told by an official in the Electoral Officer’s (EO) office that my data does not exist at the commission’s database.
“For goodness sake, how could a PVC used by myself, a governorship candidate of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) during 2015 general elections and now a governorship candidate of SDP in 2019 general elections suddenly disappear from the database of INEC?
“How on earth does the commission intend to wash itself clean of the allegations that it is involved in selling people’s PVCs?”
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