The All Progressives Con­gress (APC) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to urgently circulate to all political parties the Voters Identification Numbers (VINs) of all unclaimed Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs).
The party urged the INEC to publicly declare that anyone in possession of any PVC with any of such numbers is an impostor who must be arrested if he or she tries to use it.
In a communique issued after the emergency  meeting of its National Executive Committee (NEC) in Osogbo on Wednesday, the party said in addition to circulating the VINs of the unclaimed PVCs, INEC must publicly declare invalid for the purpose of the August 9, Osun governorship election all the PVCs with the circulated VINs.
It said the circulation of the VINs of the unclaimed PVCs and the INEC’s declaration as invalid of all PVCs bearing the VINs for the Saturday election is the irreducible minimum condition for the August 9 governorship election to be free, fair, credible and transparent.
The APC warned against the plan by the PDP-led Federal Government  to rig the Osun election through financial induce­ments and also by using the security agents who have been deployed to Osun in their thousands to arrest key leaders of the party.
‘’The party has received informa­tion that at a meeting held overnight in Osogbo involving top officials of the PDP and the Federal Government as well as INEC officials, a huge sum of money was earmarked for payment to key electoral officials to rig Saturday’s election in favour of the PDP.
‘’At the same meeting, it was resolved that APC leaders like Senator Jide Omoworare, Hon. Rotimi Makinde and others will immediately be put under house arrest and their movements severely restricted as soon as they cast their votes. Any arrest, harassment and intimidation of our leaders, as was massively done in Ekiti, will be totally unacceptable and deemed as orchestrated to rig the elec­tion,’’ the party said.
It also said that based on credible infor­mation, the rural  farm settlements around Ile-Ife and Ilesha, among others, have been identified as areas where the 500,000 cloned cards and other PVCs illegally obtained will be used mostly on Saturday.
APC condemns the rumored plan by the  security not to allow party agents within 5 metres of the polling booths to be used for Saturday’s election, calling it a ploy to make it impossible for all accred­ited agents to perform their statutory duty of verifying the identity of those coming to be accredited to vote.
‘’Accreditation is the bedrock of a free and fair election and once the security, whether military or otherwise, succeeds in preventing accredited party agents from performing their statutory role, then the basis for a free and fair election is gone. The only reason why the military will not allow party agents to do their work is to aid those who are not authorized to vote to do so. This is the only way 500,000 unclaimed PVCs and others illegally ob­tained can be used to rig the elections.
‘’We are therefore calling on INEC to prevail on the security agencies to allow the party agents to do their work unhindered on Saturday. We also want to remind INEC to note that soldiers, by law, have no business at polling booths, not to talk of the irony of the same soldiers now preventing party agents from discharging their statutory roles
‘’Even more brazen and bizarre is the information reaching us that the majority of the 500,000 PVCs and others illegally obtained may have been given to uni­formed men, both official and unofficial, who in the absence of prying eyes will cast multiple votes and rig the election in favour of the PDP”, he said.
The party condemned the glaring partisanship of the security agencies that have been deployed to Osun for the election, against the background that the Department of State Service (DSS) today prevented the solidarity rally of the NLC in support of Gov. Aregbesola at the Free­dom Park,  Osogbo from taking place on the grounds that there is a division within the NLC.

APC to INEC: Circulate voters identification numbers of unclaimed PVCs