INEC’s ban on smart phones in polling booths unsettles PDP

In front of the Osun State governorship decision on Saturday and multi day after the Independent National Electoral Commission set a prohibition on the utilization of cell phones and cameras inside surveying corners, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday kicked against the order.

INEC Chairman Prof Mahmood Yakubu, who reported the restriction on Monday in Osogbo at a partners' discussion in front of the survey, said the appointive umpire won't permit voters into the stalls with their phones, cameras and whatever other gadget that can take pictures.

The INEC seat said the measure would check the issue of vote-purchasing and vote-offering which he depicted as another procedure embraced by government officials to fix decisions.

He said the choice was achieved on account of the alert raised by partners that government officials had embraced 'see and purchase' as another apparatus technique.

The educator clarified the measure was being taken to anticipate vote-purchasing and vote-offering amid the Osun governorship survey and consequent decisions.

Yakubu stated: "I wish to now swing to the troubling issue of vote-purchasing. Throughout the years, the Commission has found a way to enhance our discretionary procedure. Today, misbehaviors, for example, polling booth grabbing and stuffing, various voting, preoccupation of decision materials, capturing of race staff, misrepresentation of results and sundry infringement of the discretionary law have been significantly tended to."

In any case, the PDP censured the choice of the discretionary umpire to boycott the utilization of advanced mobile phones in surveying units.

Its National Chairman Prince Uche Secondus blamed INEC for a clandestine move to keep the worldwide network from knowing its intend to fix the 2019 general decisions.

Senator Seriake Dickson's Special Adviser on Media Relations, Mr. FIdelis Soriwei, as having made the remark yesterday amid a gathering with partners from Bayelsa East Senatorial District in Yenagoa.

Secondus said that it was very confounding that the commission would endeavor to keep the utilization of advanced mobile phone, which he depicted as the least demanding methods for correspondence in the general public, amid decisions.

He charged that the choice to boycott the utilization of account gadgets was the technique of INEC and the APC to fix the general races a year ago.

The PDP seat contended that the commission by that particular demonstration had sent the nation to the dim, crude time.

He additionally repeated his restriction of President Muhammadu Buhari's refusal to sign the changed Electoral Act.

Secondus stated: "We have all heard what the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmud Yakubu, said in regards to the choice to boycott the utilization of PDAs in the surveying units. Everywhere throughout the world, an advanced cell is the least demanding method for correspondence.

"What they have said unmistakably demonstrates that the commission in intrigue with the All Progressives Congress have idealized a gear procedure for the following decision.

"Truth be told, INEC has sent Nigeria back to the crude days.

"A similar arrangement to fix the 2019 decision is in charge of the refusal of the President to sign the corrected Electoral Act on the grounds that the card peruser must be utilized.


"Our position is that INEC isn't right, there is no place in the constitution or in the Electoral Act, where advanced cells are restricted.

"INEC, in the event that you toss this nation to emergency, you will be considered dependable."

Secondus said that Nigeria was under attack as the Federal Government presented a disagreeable suspension of the general population appropriate to opportunity in the nation.

He mourned that the APC presented domineering propensities that were more regrettable that the constraint saw under the military.

Secondus additionally blamed the Federal Government òf getting N11 trillion out of three years disregarding the gigantic measure of cash planned yearly to run the administration.

He said that the country's obligation profile hit the most astounding ever under the APC-drove Federal Government.

Secondus stated: "We have obtained N11 trillion and you don't feel the effect of the monetary allowance with the exception of in Daura.

"Nigeria has seen nepotism that has never been felt along these lines in this nation.

"The universal network is stressed over Nigeria. The nation is destitute; our obligation profile has ascended to most elevated amount.

"Nigeria is under attack. Flexibility and rights have denied our kin. .The nation is experiencing exceptionally troublesome and attempting the occasions."

Dickson encouraged the general population of the Niger Delta to give the normal help to Secondus in his endeavors to lead the PDP to discretionary triumph one year from now, portraying the PDP as the gathering of the oil-rich district.