February 8, 2018

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday solicited the supp The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday solicited the support of stakeholders towards mobilising eligible residents to participate in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR).

Prof. Samuel Egwu, INEC Resident Electoral Commission (REC) in Niger made 4 appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna.

He said active participation of stakeholders, especially traditional and religious leaders, would greatly assist the commission in capturing eligible voters.

Egwu explained that INEC was currently rotating its personnel across the state to ensure that it registered all eligible residents.

He said the personnel would also attend to voters seeking to transfer their voting units from where they were originally registered to other locations among others.
“We have also reached out to leaders of political parties, development associations and the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) to fully mobilise their eligible members to register,” he said.

Egwu also called on the mass media to initiate more enlightenment programmes that would help educate residents to get registered to enable them elect credible leaders during the 2019 general elections.

NAN reports that similar exercises were ongoing in other states of the country.