As stakeholders kick

By Emman Ovuakporie

MORE facts emerged yesterday as to why the forthcoming general elections should not hold as less than 10percent of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, were captured by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the three troubled states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe.

Sunday Vanguard findings revealed that in a state like Borno, only five local governments could be accessed by INEC while the rest are fortresses that nobody could reach to distribute Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, not to talk of conducting elections.

The IDPs located in the metropolitan areas of the three troubled states are directly under the control of their state governors while the larger number of IDPs are located in places that they can’t be reached.

In a desperate move on January 14, the House of Representatives made an amendment to 2010 Electoral Act to accommodate IDPs in the forthcoming elections which was speedily passed.

In adopting the amendment, the House agreed to the insertion of a fresh Section 26 (1) that caters for the voting rights of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) during future elections in the country.