Stakeholders seek extension of voters’ registrationWith less than 200 days to the February 2019 general elections, stakeholders have expressed worries over the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s deadline of August 17 to end the Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise. They told The Guardian that if INEC does not reverse the deadline, over 17 million unregistered Nigerian voters stand the risk of not exercising their civic responsibility in next year’s elections. “Over 17 million youths across the country have found it difficult to register in the past three months and the truth is that the exercise has not been properly organised. My advice to INEC is to extend the voters registration across the country because money has been budgeted for the exercise,” he stated. “INEC had not registered up to 80 million Nigerians, which means they have decided to disenfranchise more than 50 per cent of the country’s eligible voters.

Source: The Guardian August 07, 2018 04:18 UTC