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Former
governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, has called on the country’s
acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, abolish the current voters’
register, describing it as a “fraud.”

Mr. Tinubu, who spoke to journalists at the
presidential wing of the Murtala Mohammed Airport (MMA) on his way to
Benin, Edo State yesterday, argued that the integrity of the voters’
registry has been tarnished.

“Where is the integrity of the voters registry? The
register is a fraud,” he said. “I am going to address it clearly today
and I am going to write a petition to the acting president. If he wants
this country to move forward, you have to scrap the voters register.”

The former governor disclosed that the country needs
to start afresh, adding that the data base housing the registry itself
is a fraud.

“I am going now to Edo State to campaign for the
integrity of our election, because the future of our country is the
stability of democracy, We depend on it,” he said.

“If we now procure it through the court, we will not
establish coalition of democracy for electoral reforms, and would not
be moving around the country to sensitize the general public on the
need for one man, one vote based upon reliable verifiable data of
registered voters.”

On Iwu’s Sack

Reacting to yesterday’s sack of Maurice Iwu, as
chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mr. Tinubu
said that the move by the acting president was a step in the right
direction, stressing that whoever takes over the job should be
thoroughly scrutinized.

“That is just the beginning of the response to our
cry,” he said. “He (Mr. Jonathan) has to clean these people,” he said.
“There is another man that Iwu would handover to, what has he been
contaminated with?”

The former governor also called on the acting president to suspend all contracts signed by the sacked INEC chairman.

“There are various contracts that Iwu had embarked upon to rush
through before he leaves, they (Presidency) should suspend all those
contracts,” he said.