The ongoing meeting of the leadership of INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) led by Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and National Chairmen of 91 Political Parties snowballed into crisis over the issue of production of the Guideline without the consultation and notification of the chairmen of Political Parties who saw the guideline smuggled into the meeting with obnoxious clauses and strange inclusions that will lead to massive rigging of the 2019 election. Trouble started when Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere the national chairman of the APP Action Peoples party and the Spokesperson of IPAC and Opposition CUPP interjected the meeting to raise alarm to the release of the guideline without the input of the chairmen and tampering with the clauses which led to applause from chairmen who supported his views. The issues raised was the tampering with the 2015 accreditation method which allowed accreditation separately and voting separate and the rejection of the new clause which provides for simultaneous accreditation and voting which the parties said will give room for a scanty polling unit that will aid rigging instead of the accreditation and voting separate which will keep the people behind as shield to resist rigging. The political parties also insisted that the commission must provide a form to record and announce accreditation and issue it out to the political parties before voting starts, to deter tampering with the results since accreditation has been known. Also the political parties demanded for the total number of PVC collected before the election and the removal of former corps member and federal civil servants from the list of inec adhoc staff. On issue of adhoc staff the commision disowned the recruitment advert saying that INEC have not agreed on the criteria for Adhoc recruitment. The commission agreed to stop PVC collection 1 week to election and give out the numbers collected at the state level to the stakeholders. The refusal of the commission to shift ground on the issue of the tampering with the 2015 accreditation method and the introduction of simultaneous accreditation and voting for 2019 election led to the commotion that engulfed the meeting with shouts and fracas, with the political parties accusing INEC chairman of insincerity and planning to aid the riging of the election, insisting that the political parties will not collaborate with him further or endorse the guideline until it is corrected and all the credible election threatening clauses removed. Earlier in the meeting a move to disrupt the meeting by pro Buhari chairmen who wanted to stop IPAC chairmen Peter Ameh from speaking with the tacit support of some INEC officials were rebuffed with the few chairmen been bundled out of the meeting venue for the meeting to resume. The meeting has hit a stalemate now as the INEC chairman has refused to shift ground on the issue of the accreditation and voting process with tension rising and some chairmen threatening to stage a walk out.
