INEC’s Admission Of Fake Registrants Vindicates Our Stand – CUPP
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), has said that admission of fake registrants in Orlu Easy Local Government of Imo State by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) has clearly vindicated its position that there was an attempt to compromise the electoral body’s register of voters.
This was as it said that the alarm it raised was a patriotic one that was not meant to witch-hunt anybody, stressing that the exposed discrepancies by opposition political parties in the voters’ register in 22 states controlled by the All Progressives Congress (APC), was not to witch hunt any person or group of persons.
These were contained in a statement by the spokesman of CUPP, Ikenga Ugochinyere, saying that its position was a patriotic move to further alert INEC and indeed Nigerians of desperate plot by some undemocratic forces to compromise 2023 election.
CUPP however said that it has noted that the assurance by INEC to flush out the fake names from its register and the determination to prosecute those behind the alleged electoral fraud.
According to CUPP; “It will further help to douse the tension in some states where there was alleged manipulations”.
It commended the commission for its swift response to its press conference as well as the steps taken to delete over 3,000 fake names in the register of voters in Oru East Local Government of Imo State.
INEC National Commissioner, Mr. Festus Okoye had said that the commission had detected ineligible registrants in its record in the ongoing cleaning up of register of voters which were deleted.
