Voter Registration Ends As Stranded Applicants Lament, Seek Extension
- Thousands of eligible Nigerians will be unable to register to vote in the coming 2023 general elections
- This follows the Independent National Electoral Commission to extend the the continuous voter registration exercise
- Recall that INEC began the nationwide registration in June 2021 to enable Nigerians who had just attained the voting age and others to register
The Independent National Electoral Commission has ended the continuous voter registration exercise.
This has not gone down well with thousands of Nigerians, who could not register for the exercise, which ended on Sunday, July 31. Also, INEC has refused to extend the exercise.
Punch Newspaper reports that the stranded applicants said the decision of the commission to stop the CVR is a way of disenfranchising them.
Recall that in preparation for the 2023 general elections, INEC began the nationwide registration in June 2021 to enable Nigerians who had just attained the voting age and others to register.
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The electoral body planned to terminate the CVR on June 30,2022, but a civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project on June 5 filed a suit at the Federal High Court seeking an extension of the exercise beyond that date.
Consequently, Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon on June 20 granted an order of interim injunction stopping INEC from stopping the registration exercise.
In compliance with the order, the electoral body extended the exercise till July 31.
Despite the extension, however, hundreds of applicants have continued to besiege registration centres nationwide in a bid to register before the deadline.
2023: APC chieftain asks Nigerians in diaspora to support Tinubu’s emergence
Meanwhile, a chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and deputy national publicity secretary, Hon. Yakubu Murtala has asked Nigerians living outside the country to throw their weight behind the party’s presidential flag bearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the forthcoming 2023 election.
He explained that Tinubu has robust and fruitful relationship with Nigerians across the geo-political zones and indeed every state pointing out that his investment in making relationships confers on him as the best bridge builder that Nigeria needs now.
Hon. Murtala who was speaking on Saturday, July 30 at a town Hall meeting in London for young Nigerians, stressed that Tinubu’s passion for youth development and engagement differentiates him from others.
Source: Legit.ng
