Osun State governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, on Thursday described the alleged plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to extract pin numbers from the purchased Permanent Voters Cards (PVC) as undemocratic and illegal.

Adeleke hinted that plans were underway to induce voters with money in order to extract their Personal Identification Numbers (PINs)electronically in order to disenfranchise them, with a view to manipulate the outcome of August 15 polls.

In a statement by his spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, the governor tasked the public to reject all forms of inducements and charged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to checkmate the illegal moves.

Adeleke, who said available reports from across the 30 local governments and Area Office, accused the APC and its agents of monetarily inducing the public to part with their voters’ cards with intent to disenfranchise mostly Accord Party members in local government council. He warned members of the public to protect and never part with their voters cards.

According to the statement, “the opposition party in collusion with their agents were extracting the pin numbers on the voters cards through offering of monetary rewards and warned that the operation is targeting local governments with huge followership of the Accord Party.

“The plot is to ensure massive dislocation of registered voters from their place of registration such as from one town to the other and thereby making it impossible for such voters to vote on the day of election

“In some other local governments, the APC agents insisted on the voters swearing an oath to take inducement to secure the pin numbers or a photocopy of the voters cards, charging voters not to fall for an evil plot to deny them their voting rights.”

Adeleke, however, described the development as criminal practices and a breach of the provisions of the electoral act called on the electoral commission to wade into the matter as reports point to an insider collusion in the APC operations.

“I task the electoral body not to look the other way. We have reports of insider collusion which we are still investigating. Any link between the pin numbers on the voters card and manipulations of the voting process is a source of concern for us. We trust the electoral body to act, “the governor added.