ASHENEWS reports that the Sokoto state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on security agencies operating under the platform of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES), to investigate and fish out those who committed electoral malpractices, including snatching of Biomodal Verification Accreditation System (BVAS), ballot boxes destruction.
The state chairman, Isa Sadiq Acida, at a press conference in Sokoto on Saturday, also called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to replace its officers who are known to have compromised their positions to subvert the February 25, presidential and National Assembly (NASS) elections.
According to him, while the Police should set up a committee to investigate and find out those who destroyed ballot boxes, INEC should also disengage those of its staff that engaged in malpractices.
“It is our considered view that all individuals who committed such offences and their sponsors should be identified and arrested to face the extant laws of the land.
“INEC should replace all those officials who compromised their positions and connived with politicians to subvert the electoral process.
“Among them are those who deliberately reported to duty late and those who connived with politicians to perpetrate over voting to favour a particular political party or candidate,” he alleged.
Acida alleged that some of the INEC officials deliberately refused to use the BVAS machines, claiming that they were faulty.
