Umuahia- The Ohaneze Youth Council (OYC), the youth wing of Ohaneze Ndigbo, a socio-cultural organisation, has advocated the setting up of special polling units for Igbos who fled the north due to insurgency.
The National President of the council, Mr Okechukwu Isiguzoro, made the call at a news conference in Umuahia on Thursday.
Isinguzoro said it was necessary to set up special polling units for the fleeing Igbos in order not to disenfranchise them.
He said the decision by INEC to create special polling booths for persons displaced by the Boko Haram insurgents in north east should also be extended to Igbo returnees.
According to him, “what is good for the goose is also good for the gander.”
Isinguzoro urged the INEC Chairman, Prof. Atahiru Jega, to heed the call for the creation of the special polling units.
He said failure to do so would be interpreted to mean that the commission was giving undue electoral advantage to a particular section of the country over others.
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“How can Jega create special polling booths for internally displaced persons in the north without considering the fate of those fleeing the war zones to their home states?’’
He urged the Federal Government to closely monitor the activities of the commission in order to avert any act capable of derailing the 2015 polls.
The chairman called on governors of the South East to sensitise and mobilise registered voters in their states to go for their permanent voter cards.
He said a lot of eligible voters in the area might be disenfranchised because of their inability to get their PVCs. (NAN)
