Lam alleges disapperance of voters’ names on INEC register

 …calls for redeployment of Oyo REC

BY OLA AJAYI

IBADAN – UNLESS urgent steps are taken to correct disappearance of some voters’ names  in the register of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,  and alleged replacement of some ad-hoc staff with members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  the former Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Lamidi Adesina,  has threatened there will be a repeat of political crises that characterized the 1965 election in the South West.

He said he would not mind to pay the supreme price should the ruling PDP in connivance with the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in the state, Mr. Ayo Adakeja attempt to foist any result on the people of the state.

The former governor expressed disappointment at the attitude of the REC, who, he said, had fallen headlong to the bait of the governor of the state, arguing that the party had lost confidence in him.

Adesina, who was pacifying crowd of members of the party who had wanted to  march to the office of the electoral body, said, despite his call for the redeployment of the REC and alarm he had earlier raised that some names of registered voters had been altered, he was surprised to see many voters complaining about disappearance of their names at the polling centers in the botched election held last Saturday.

He said, “what we experienced during the cancelled NASS election of April 2 2011 further strengthened our fears that Mr. Adakeja cannot conduct a free, fair and credible election in Oyo State which may tarnish the reputation, integrity and good name of the Chairman of INEC, Prof Jega”.

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