Display of Voters’ List: Checking your names is the best way to frustrate rigging, PDP tells supporters

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged eligible voters to visit their various polling units to check their names as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) displays voter register from November. 6.

National Chairman of the Uche Secondus, gave the advice in a statement issued by his Media Aide, Ike Abonyi, on Monday in Abuja.

Secondus said that the essence of the four-day display as stipulated by the Electoral Act was to ensure that no voter was disenfranchised, saying this was the first step to avoid it.

He said that cross checking and confirming the details ahead of the election was a mechanism put in place to reduce any attempts to commit rigging.

“By cross checking and re-cross checking, the voters wittingly would have begun the battle to frustrate rigging of the election.’’

The chairman urged voters who noticed issues with their particulars to cry out loudly immediately by going to the electoral centers to complain for rectification.

“Please note that if you have a PVC and your name is not on the register, you are as good as a person who has gone into a contest he did not register for and expecting a positive result ,’’ he said.