How INEC Imported Ethnic Cleansing into the Distribution of PVCs in Nigeria

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How INEC Imported Ethnic Cleansing into the Distribution of PVCs in Nigeria

by Global Reporters | 15. March 2015 13:54

• Critical evaluation of  state-by-state PVC distribution of March 12, 2015 by INEC
• Geopolitical Zonal Evaluation
• Consequences of ethnic cleansing in the PVCs distribution

Professor Attahiru M. Jega
Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
INEC Headquarters, Plot 436 Zambezi Crescent
Maitama, P.M.B. 0184, FCT, Garki, Abuja, Nigeria

Sir,

Consequences Of Importing Ethnic Cleansing Into The Distribution Of Permanent Voters'  Cards In Nigeria
Part Two

(Democracy & Civil Liberties, Onitsha Nigeria, 15th March 2015)-This is the concluding part of our (Intersociety) letter to the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Nigeria, Prof Attahiru M. Jega, originally dated 13th March 2015 and referenced as above. The letter has since been updated to accommodate the Commission's latest (March 12, 2015) PVCs' State-by-State distribution update and few other important information. The updated version has electronically been sent to e-addresses of the Commission and other recipients.

Critical Evaluation Of  State-By-State PVC Distribution Of March 12, 2015 By INEC:

Geopolitical Zonal Evaluation:

TABLE 1:  MARCH 12, 2015 PVC DISTRIBUTION & GEO-POLITICAL ZONE BREAKDOWN

(Credit: Mobolaji Aluko March 2015 (edited and updated)-Commentator on National Issues)

TABLE 2: MARCH 12, 2015 PVC DISTRIBUTION STATE- BY-STATE BREAKDOWN

(Credit: Mobolaji Aluko March 2015 (edited and updated)-Commentator on National Issues)

Summarized Findings:

1. Over one million PVCs are yet to be produced, delivered and distributed barely fourteen days to the Presidential Poll.
2. Of the over one million unproduced PVCs, the South is owed 807, 553.
3. Total Registered Voters (RVs) for the North including the FCT=37, 377, 180
4. Total Registered Voters (RVs) for the  South=31, 456, 296
5. Total gap between the North and the South in RVs=5, 920, 883
6. Total PVCs distributed in the North including the FCT as at 12^th March 2015=32, 041, 327
7. Total PVCs distributed in the South as at 12^th March 2015=23, 944, 845
8. Total gap between the North and the South in the PVCs distributed as at 12^th March 2015=8,096, 482
9. Total Registered Voters in Nigeria for 2015 polls=68, 833, 476
10. Total PVCs distributed in Nigeria  according to INEC as at 12^th March 2015=55,904, 272 (ours 55, 986, 172)
11. Total Registered Voters (RVs) denied PVCs in Nigeria according to INEC) as at 12^th March 2015=12, 929, 204 (ours 12, 847, 304)
12. Total Registered Voters (RVs) likely to be disenfranchised or denied PVCs in the March 28 & April 11, 2015 Polls=11,000,000
13. Total RVs denied PVCs in the North including the FCT=5, 335, 857
14. Total RVs denied PVCs in the South=7, 510, 471
15. Total RVs denied PVCs in Lagos State (most populated RVs in the South)=2, 054, 560
16. Total RVs denied PVCs in Kano State (most populated RVs in the North)=863, 662
17. Total RVs denied PVCs in the Southwest=4, 765, 964
18. Total RVs denied PVCs in the North-central=2, 115, 910
19. Total RVs denied PVCs in the South-south=1, 693, 582
20. Total RVs denied PVCs in the Northwest=1, 522, 376
21. Total RVs denied PVCs in the Northeast= 1, 385, 208
22. Total RVs denied PVCs in the Southeast=1, 050, 925
23. Total RVs denied PVCs in the FCT=312, 363
24. Total PVCs distributed in seven States of the Northwest zone (16, 098, 060) are much higher than those of eleven States of the South-south and the Southeast zones (14, 980,699) put together
25. 70% of RVs denied PVCs in the Northeast, the Northwest and Plateau and Niger States in the North-central as well as Lagos State in the Southwest by way of seizure, hoarding, misplacement; disappearance or destruction are non indigenes, Christians and minorities.

Consequences Of Ethnic Cleansing In The PVCs Distribution:

The worst undoing trailing the 2015 General Elections in Nigeria is the introduction of ethnicity and religion into it; from the table of your Commission as per the management of the National Register of Voters including voters registration and revalidation; distribution and issuance of Permanent Voters Cards; to the conducts and conspiracies of primordial and ethno-religious fundamentalist politicians. For the first time in Nigeria under your professorial electoral midwifery, ethnic cleansing has been introduced into the country's electoral industry and management.

As we have severally observed, the causes of electoral violence in contemporary times around the world are no longer majorly located at the doorsteps of politicians, but at the doorsteps of electoral umpires owing to conducts such as those being complained of. This was why we held and still hold that your Commission must take full responsibility of any riotous outcome of the 2015 polls if it occurs.

Our grand purpose of writing your Commission for the last time before the referenced polls is to demystify the foregoing triggers of violence in the hope that they will be incorporated into your Commission's final push and bottled up. This must include ensuring that the remaining 12, 847, 304 registered voters in Nigeria denied PVCs till date are provided with same inexcusably even if it means taking them to their homes. Addressing the foregoing anomalies being complained of should go beyond showcasing of professorial and political science grammars in the media and other public forums. The 2015 polls midwifery must go beyond wearing professorial agbada and university classroom tutorship. They require workshop engineering approaches; otherwise heaven will be let loose and the country will go up in unquenchable flames.

From every indication, your Commission's informal policy for the 2015 polls appears to constitute a dangerous threat to social values and identities of Christians, Igbo nation as well as Southern and Northern minorities in Nigeria.  People may let go other intruders, but certainly not intruders questioning, undermining and threatening their social values or ethnic identities.

Recent angry reactions against your Commission across the country by Nigerian mainstream ethnic nationalities such as the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) in the Southeast zone, the O'odua People's Congress in the Southwest zone, the South-South People's Assembly in the South-south zone and the Southern Kaduna Assembly and Christian/Minority bodies in the North clearly indicate existence and maintenance by your Commission of an informal policy questioning, threatening and undermining their ethnic and social identities. Apart from issuance of public statements including communiques calling for the sack or resignation of the Chairman of your Commission, they have also taken to the streets to register their anger and seriousness over the referenced particularly as it concerns denial of their PVCs and voting rights. One of such street protests took place in Anambra State on March 13, 2015 at the instance of the leadership of MASSOB. These explain why we hold submissively that ethnic cleansing has officially crept into the 2015 polls under your professorial midwifery.

Yours Faithfully,

For: International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law

Emeka Umeagbalasi, B.Sc. (Hons.) Criminology & Security Studies

Board Chairman

Uzochukwu Oguejiofor, Esq., (LLB, BL), Head, Campaign & Publicity Department

Chiugo Onwuatuegwu, Esq., (LLB, BL), Head, Democracy & Good Governance Program

Obianuju Igboeli, Esq., (LLB, BL), Head, Civil Liberties & Rule of Law Program

CC:

1. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation
2. The Chief of Defense Staff of the Armed Forces of Nigeria
3. The Director General, Directorate of State Security, Federal Republic of Nigeria

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