Both the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition party- the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have opposed the insistence of the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (KADSIECOM), to conduct the forthcoming of local council polls on schedule.
Whereas the PDP kicked against the election umpire’s notifi cation that the card reader would not used during the election, the ruling APC national event, the State event has to step down for the national event. Therefore we are calling on the SEICOM to postpone the election to enable stakeholders prepare for the national convention”. On the part of the PDP, the State Secretary, Ibrahim Wusono, said: “It is a grand design to rigg the election, and therefore it is not acceptable to us in the PDP.
The card readers must be made available during the election”. In a swift response, the SEICOM boss said, “We started talking to INEC about card readers about two years ago. But we were shocked to get a letter from INEC that it would not be able to provide us with the card readers because it was preparing for 2019 election.
“INEC cannot hold us back; we have to go ahead with our own election as scheduled. If there is anybody here that can convince INEC to give us the card readers we will appreciate it. However, we are going to use electronic voting machine which is one of the sensitive materials”. On the call for the postponement of the election, she noted that the election date was not the same with that of the APC national convention, and as such the election cannot be shifted.
