Kano Govt Accuses NNPP Of Recruiting Fake Election Observers

Kano State government has raised the alarm over credible information it received on planned use of suspected election observers by members of the opposition New Nigeria Peoples Party in the state to perpetrate a network of election rigging during and after the conduct of tomorrow’s governorship and state house of assembly elections.

The commissioner for information and internal affairs, Muhammad Garba, made the allegation in a statement yesterday.

He alleged that the NNPP has perfected plans to use bogus election observers to infiltrate polling centres to influence unsuspecting voters and collation centres with a view to having access to the place to commit election malfeasance.

He said out of desperation, the NNPP has cloned the identity of accredited observers by the independent national Electoral Commission for more 150 of its members in the metropolitan area to execute the reprehensible act.

Garba, therefore, called on the public to report any of such imposters to the police and also called security agencies to decisively dealt with the situation.