The Independent National Electoral Agency (INEC), in Niger State, on Thursday, said it has deployed 742 cadre to political wards beyond the accompaniment to ensure massive allotment of acceptable voters.
The state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, Prof. Samuel Egwu, fabricated the acknowledgment in an interview, in Minna.
“We accept so far registered about 95, 434 which consists of 61,867 males and 33,747 females and issued them with their abiding voters cards.
” We aswell accept 132,985 bearding PVCs, 366 gluttonous alteration and 163 un-printed and bare cases, and 465 cases of absent of abiding voters cards.”
Egwu aswell said that the agency is aswell accessory to 553 cases of corrections in their abiding voters cards.
” Those that had beforehand registered and had not calm their Abiding Voter Cards (PVCs) should aswell appear advanced for accumulating in our offices beyond the 25 bounded government areas of the state,” Egwu added.
The REC solicited the abutment of stakeholders including acceptable and religious leaders in mobilizing acceptable association to participate in the advancing Continuous Voters’ Allotment in the state.
” I appetite media organisations to arrange all acceptable and able accumulation media strategies to mobilise acceptable voters to participate actively in the exercise.
” We accept aswell accomplished out to the leaders of assorted political parties to mobilise added acceptable voters to register,” Egwu said.
He said that educating acceptable association on the accent of accepting PVC was all-important as it would acquiesce them the befalling to vote in approaching elections.