70,000 voters now registered by Kwara INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kwara state on Tuesday said that it has registered about  70,000 eligible voters from April last year till date

The state Administrative Secretary Paul Atser spoke this in Ilorin at at a meeting with IPAC members. Mr Atser, said that PVC of the registered voters were on the way to the state.

The INEC boss also said that about 4,000 PVCs were collected out of the 242,000 unclaimed cards.

On the On-going Continuous Voters Registration CVR exercise, the Administrative Secretary said that the exercise was going on peacefully in the state adding that the Office had not witnessed any ugly incidence.

He assured that the newly printed PVC for registrants who registered since 2017 would soon be ready for collection and that the stakeholders would be adequately informed; he added that cards owners would have to come by person to collect the cards.

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Mr. Atser, who appreciated peaceful and serene political environment existing in Kwara state, noted that the political parties had been conducting their activities in peaceful manner devoid of any major rancor as witnessed in several other states and appealed that such should be sustained.

The Administrative Secretary added that the meeting was called to intimate political parties with the developments that had taken place since their last meeting was held.

Mr. Atser urged IPAC members to feel free to come to the Commission’s Office on any issue that is not clear to them as his Office doors were widely opened.

Also speaking, chairman of IPAC in Kwara State, Comrade Abdul-Mumeen Onagun who is also the Labour Party Chairman, commended openness of the state office of INEC in handling all issues relating to political parties and creating level playground all the time.

He also said that despite INEC efforts on the increased numbers of the registration centers, the centres were still grossly inadequate and the centres were still very far to the registrants. He therefore called on INEC to give more centres so as to ensure no one was disenfranchised.

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