LAGOS—A former governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Babatunde Olalere Gbadamosi has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of tacitly encouraging vote buying by disenfranchising eligible voters.

In a statement, Gbadamosi said: “Despite large registration units in 2015, a large number of people could not register to vote, and today, it is worse under the present INEC. One can only imagine the degree of the disenfranchisement that Nigerians are being visited with, with this incompetent, corrupt, biased and prejudiced INEC.

“It is not enough to extend the exercise when it was designed to deny the people the right to register, so the whole design needs to be changed, to be overhauled now, not tomorrow.

“As it is now, the 2019 elections are already tainted even before they are held by the gerrymandering that INEC is doing. Who needs politicians to rig if the umpire can rig for you?

“If they can rig the system right from inception, why do you need politicians to rig for you?”

Gbadamosi, who is currently a chieftain of Action Democratic Party, ADP, also alleged that the present INEC was pro-All Progressives Congress, APC, going by its body language saying “The more people that register, the less effective vote buying becomes.”