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The Independent National Electoral Commission is registering foreigners for the 2019 elections, the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum has claimed.
This allegation got here in a communique issued by the Forum on Sunday the place it revealed that many of the foreigners are from Niger Republic.
As said by the communique, “Equally worrisome is the intelligence report at our disposal that a large number of mercenary voters have been registered from neighbouring countries especially from Niger Republic under the continuous voter registration which could have been one of the reasons why the Federal Government is in a haste to construct a rail from Kano, through Dambatta, Kazaure, Daura, Mashi, Katsina, Jibia and terminate in Maradi, Niger Republic. Money has been appropriated for this in the 2018 budget.”
“Five clear months after the promise and immediate conclusion of the project by the staff he arrange, the INEC chairman has refused to launch the report which might essentially have necessitated a nationwide interrogation of the voter registry.
“Information at our disposal is that the report of the committee is so damning and that is the reason why he is doing a macabre dance on it.”
The physique puzzled “How on earth can we belief a man doing such over an situation of public information to be honest on issues regarding free and honest elections that will not be within the public glare?
“We demand the immediate release of the INEC report on the Kano underage voter’s scandal and interrogation of the voter registry by a judicial commission with representatives from international and local elections observers to check cases of underage voters and foreign mercenaries before the 2019 elections. This is very necessary as INEC cannot be a judge in its own case.”