ABUJA — The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, raised alarm yesterday, that the Professor Attahiru Jega led Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was working with the opposition the All Progressives Congress, APC, to ensure that members and supporters of PDP in Lagos State were denied their Permanent Voters’ Cards, PVCs.

According to PDP, the APC has been jittery over the increasing popularity of President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP governorship candidate in the state, Mr. Olujimi Agbaje and now seeks to compromise the electoral process by manipulating the distribution of the PVCs.

The National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a statement, stressed that the deliberate refusal by INEC refusing to release the PVCs was designed by INEC to disenfranchise its members from voting next month.

Metuh noted that the PDP had observed that officials of INEC were working hand in gloves with the APC in the state to frustrate the distribution of the PVCs in PDP strongholds as well as non-indigenes, describing the development as “unacceptable, illegal and part of the criminal plot by the APC to hold on to power in the face of its dwindling popularity among the people who are now eager to vote en masse for the PDP and end APC’s dictatorial rule in the state.

“While we restate our commitment to peaceful and credible elections come February 14, 2015, we will not accept any attempt to scheme us out in any state or states controlled by the APC.”