The Abia State authorities has expressed concern over reviews that sure political figures are allegedly utilizing their brokers to go to completely different wards and trick rural residents into surrendering the small print on their Everlasting Voters Playing cards (PVCs).
These brokers reportedly provide N10,000 in return for the delicate voter information.
In accordance with the alarm raised, this operation is being masked as an initiative to arrange an e-wallet for empowerment, though no such platform exists.
In a press release launched Monday evening, signed by Ferdinand Ekeoma, the Particular Adviser to Governor Alex Otti, the federal government warned that the final word aim of these behind this act is to tamper with the integrity of the affected PVCs, making it not possible for the house owners to vote within the 2027 basic election.
Whereas no names have been disclosed, the assertion highlighted that the state has executed a number of empowerment tasks focusing on younger individuals and the aged.
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It added that extra of such interventions will comply with, free from political bias or shady circumstances that threaten residents’ rights.
He warned that “Authorities views this deliberate act of criminality as an irresponsible act and warns that any individual or individuals, regardless of how extremely positioned, caught indulging on this act of criminality, instantly or by means of brokers, shall face extreme penalties, past their creativeness”.
The federal government urged residents, particularly these in rural areas, to “henceforth distance themselves from any particular person or group who might strategy them for the aim of acquiring data contained on their PVCs or every other private data which will disenfranchise or endanger them in any approach.”
