The former Secretary to the Abia State Government and a member of the PDP Board of Trustees, Eme Okoro, has alleged that voters’ cards and National Identity Numbers belonging to some indigenes of his Ozuitem community in Bende LGA were demanded from them during the All Progressives Congress (APC) e-registration in the community.
Okoro, who is a coalition member of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), said that he received reports about the allegedly obtained documents from villagers.
The former Secretary to the Abia State Government was speaking in Ozuitem on Sunday when a medical doctor, Dr. Emenike Onyebuchi Okoro, declared his intention to contest for the Bende Federal Constituency.
“When I came, I heard from a number of women and men that their voters’ cards and NIN were taken away from them when they were being asked to register in APC. It means you can’t register in another party.
“It is not good. It is undemocratic. I will make sure that people in Ozuitem get their voters’ cards back,” the former Abia SSG vowed.
Declaring for the Bende Federal Constituency race, Dr. Emenike Onyebuchi Okoro said he was counting on the support of God and his constituents in his bid to replace the incumbent occupant of the seat, Benjamin Kalu.
Reacting on behalf of the Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, the APC Publicity Secretary, Uche Aguoru, dismissed the claims that people’s PVCs and NINs were taken from Ozuitem villagers.
“People who love what the President is doing in the country decided to join us willingly on their own.
“Nobody coerced anybody; we did not ask anybody to bring anything,” the Abia APC Publicity Secretary, Uche Aguoru, said.
PDP BoT member accuses APC of obtaining villagers’ PVCs, NINs by trick
