INEC gets voter registration machines for 2015 polls
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday
said it had procured machines that will be used for the Continuous Voters
Registration in the 2015 general elections.
The commission also said it will carry out voters’
registration for the governorship elections for Ekiti and Osun states between
March 12 and 19.
The Director of Voters Registry in INEC, Mr. Emmanuel Akem,
disclosed this to Journalists during a one-day national conference with the
theme: “Stakeholders engagement of INEC on the status of continuous voter
registration ahead of the 2015 elections”, organized by Transition Monitoring
Group with support from the United National Development Programme/Democratic
Governance for Development.
He said, “Since the machines are in place, it is 100 per
cent a possibility to register in any INEC Local Government office nearest to
you.
“The nationwide voters’ registration has no date yet because
we want to have the full complement of those back-up machines.”
He added that the introduction of the machines was being
done in stages with regards to the gubernatorial elections.
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