By Juliet Oyoyo
Kaduna – About a month to the 2019
polls, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has
disclosed that the names of all underage voters had been removed from
its list to ensure that the upcoming election was free, fair, and
credible.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner, INEC Kaduna,
Abdullahi Kaigama, made the disclosure during an interactive session
with religious leaders in Kaduna on Tuesday.
Kaigama noted that the build-up to the general election was quite tasking.
“With the support of the stakeholders, the elections will definitely be successful,” he said.
He
urged that all registered voters who had not collected their Permanent
Voter Cards should do so between January 16 and 21, 2019 at the
designated centres in their wards.
Kaigama explained that after
mandatory display of register in all polling units nationwide for claims
and objections from November 6, to 12, 2018, number of registered
voters stood at 84,004,084.
He said it was the same register that would be available at the polling units nationwide on election day.
According
to him, “After January 21, the collection of PVCs will be reverted to
the commission’s local government offices where registered voters can
collect them up till February 8, 2019.
“The commission has
modified the register of voters for the 2019 general elections
accordingly. Consequently, the separate incident form used in previous
elections is now abolished.”
While commending INEC in its laid
down plans for the upcoming elections, the CAN chairman, Kaduna chapter,
Rev. John Joseph Hayab, challenged INEC to walk the talk of
transparency.
“The plans are good, and that should be backed with
actions. INEC should be sincere, upright and the commission should be
neutral in the coming elections,” Hayab admonished.
He also
called on Nigerians to have confidence in INEC and promised to use his
position to support the commission for a successful outing in the 2019
elections.
Source:- Independentng
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