By Abubakar Yunusa, Abuja
The Obi-Datti Media Organisation has flayed attacks on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Ogun and Osun State by hoodlums recently.
The Explainer reports that suspected hoodlums in the wee hours of Thursday set INEC offices at Iyana Mortuary, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on fire, while its Ede South Local Government Area office was attacked and some portions burnt by the hoodlums.
This was just as the Commission last week convened a security meeting over reported attacks on rallies and campaigns of political parties.
“We condemn this arson in the strongest term possible because of the danger and threat it poses to the conduct of free, fair, and credible elections next year,” the Head of the organisation Diran Onifade, said in a statement.
He said the burning of INEC offices and materials has no compensatory benefit to the perpetrators of the heinous crime, hence, it is purely a campaign of sabotage against the Nigerian nation, her people, and her future.
He lamented that most of the newly registered voters who showed unprecedented enthusiasm to participate in next year’s elections by trooping out en-masse to register have not collected their PVCs and they would be the worst victims of this sabotage.
“Those waiting to collect their PVCs are in millions and that if this ugly trend is not checked, Nigeria would have millions of voters disenfranchised.
And there is a potential danger now that if this level of disenfranchisement occurs, the result of next year’s elections will not reflect the wishes of the overwhelming majority of Nigerians,” he said.
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