By: Uche Enyioko
Our electoral System has consciously or unconsciously disfranchised about five hundred thousands (500,000) of eligible voters.These group of Nigerian citizens are the people that work directly under the elected officers and yet they are not part of the makings of their leaders. 
During the course of my assignment as a Director in the Movement For Better Nigeria (MBN), I found out that our Armed Security Officers don’t have Permanent voter’s Card(PVC ) and as I tried to find out why they are not having the PVC it showed that some of them were not properly informed while some have refused to be informed on the importance of having a PVC and voting on election days. These group of people will tell you that voting is for bloody civilians. In United States Of America (USA) United Kingdom (UK) Norway (Nor)and South Korea where I spent about fifteen years under studying their secrets of rapid development, all the security personnels of these Countries will always perform their civic duties. To vote, the system allows them to vote some days before the actual election day so as to give them opportunity to do their security assignments on the voting days but in our country, the system has made it impossible for them to vote.
I have written to INEC in 2015, made National Radio presentation on the issue and on 27th of July 2017, I have also spoken to Abia Resident Electoral Commissioner in the presence of Abia State Security Chiefs and Political Stakeholders on this issue in 2019 that the security men and women don’t have PVC and it is wrong that our Armed Forces are not part of the makings of commander in Chief of Armed forces; Chief Security Officers of the States and the Legislators that make the laws that direct their duties.
Why is it a concern that these people should be part of the electoral process? In the past they had planted ‘torpedoes’ on our democracy. So to avoid that recurring again is to make them part of the process.It is near impossible for a mentally healthy man to destroy a house he built.
I Uche Enyioko so moved that our electoral commission should accommodate these people that can read, write and speak and that cannot be cheap to be bought over by the money bags in politics to be part of voting and let us not be oversighted that these security personnels that are about five hundred thousand (500,000)with guns in their hands has the capacity to truncate what over sixty million (60,000,000) people of the Nation did
I pray the authority concerned will listen and do the needful as promised for the good of our country.
2027 IS LOADING AND LET THE “NETWORK” (Bvas and irev) BE GOOD/STRONG ENOUGH AND NOT FAIL TO COMPLETE THE “DOWNLOAD”.
If the authority concerned refused or avoid to take responsibility now, the authority shall never avoid the consequences of their irresponsibility which may be unimaginable.
May God help us
Jesus is Lord
Uche Enyioko is a Former Commissioner for Agriculture, Former Special Adviser to the Governor of Abia State on Education and Deputy Governorship Candidate of PPA 2015.
