In Kwara State, North Central Nigeria, several eligible voters have stormed various registration centres in the effort to beat the July 31, 2022 deadline for permanent voter’s card registration.
The exercise according to Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), ends on Sunday evening, by 5:00 PM Nigerian time, and there won’t be any extension.
Some eligible voters who spoke with VON, said it was not easy getting registered as the crowd was high; stressing that they arrived at the centres as early as six o’clock in the morning to obtain registration tags which the INEC officials will use to call them in one after the other.
Extension appeal
Meanwhile, a cross section of those that are yet to register have passionately appealed with the concerned authorities to further extend the deadline for registration, noting that as things are, many people may not meet the deadline lamenting that poor network has slowed down the process.
The state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mallam Garba Madami, however, assured Kwarans that everyone who presents himself for registration in all the centres will be attended to.
He said the registration centres have been decentralized to make the exercise easy for the people of the state.
Madami added that the INEC staff had for sometimes being working on weekends in order to ensure that no one is denied the opportunity to get his/ her PVC.
The state governor, AbdulRahaman AbdulRazaq, had earlier declared Friday work- free to enable civil servants participate in the exercise
Olusola Akintonde
