By DAYO JOHNSON
AKURE—THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Ondo State, yesterday, raised the alarm that an unnamed political party was compiling a fake voter-register ahead of the October 20 governorship election.
But, the Akeredolu Campaign Organisation has challenged the commission to name the political party involved in the illegal voter-registration.
In a statement in Akure, by its Head of Public Affairs, Mrs. Celina Beckley, INEC said the voter-registration was illegal and contravened the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended).
It warned the "political party involved to desist from such act as the security operatives had been alerted to deal with anyone or group of people caught in the act."
The commission urged members of the public "not to trade with their voter-cards, but keep them safely and be ready to present them at the polling unit so that they can vote in the forthcoming governorship election."
In another development, the Police authorities in the state, yesterday, asked political party leadership to curb their members' violent tendencies.
According to the command Image Maker, Mr. Adeniran Aremu, in a statement, in Akure, warned politicians in the state against actions that could provoke violent retaliatory reactions from other parties.
Meantime, the Akeredolu Campaign Organisation, through its Director of Media, Publicity and Strategy, Mr. Idowu Ajanaku, has challenged INEC to name the party allegedly involved in the illegal voter- registration.
Ajanaku said his party, Action Congress of Nigeia, ACN, in Ondo State, had raised alarm that another party had embarked on illegal registration in the state under certain pretences, adding that it was a plot to compromise the election.
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