INEC begins voter registration today
Already, some political parties and INEC officials yesterday called on their prospective members to avail themselves with the opportunity ahead of future elections.
The targeted groups include citizens that have turned 18 years of age since the last registration, as well as those who did not register during the last exercise.
The National Commissioner and Acting Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Mrs Amina Zakari, had last week said the exercise would hold simultaneously in all the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
From Lokoja, the INEC Administrative Secretary in Kogi, Mr Adison Mailafiya, said the National Commissioner of the commission in charge of Kogi, Plateau and Nasarawa states, Mr Mohammed Haruna, will flag off the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise today.
He said the flag-off ceremony would be done at the Lokoja INEC office by 9am.
Mailafiya said the CVR exercise would commence concurrently across the 21 INEC local government offices in the state.
The Rivers State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bro. Felix Obuah, had called on INEC to give equal opportunities to the electorate to get voters cards.
He made the appeal yesterday in a press statement issued in Port Harcourt.
Obuah, who welcomed the exercise, said he believed that the development would improve the data base of the electoral empire and increase voters’ participation in the forthcoming general elections.
In Bauchi, INEC officials yesterday urged stakeholders to assist it to ensure that unscrupulous persons did not undermine the process.
The Head of Voter Education and Publicity of the commission, Alhaji Mohammed Garba, said the success of the exercise depended on political parties, traditional leaders and Immigration officials.
INEC’s Executive Secretary in Kwara State, Mr. Paul Atser, said the commission had 240,000 unclaimed permanent voters cards already produced before the 2015 general elections but yet to be collected by their respective owners in Kwara state.
He said the unclaimed PVCs would be released to the owners on production of temporary voters’ cards.
POSTED BY:OPUOMONI PRIYE
DATE:04/26/2017
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