2019 Polls: Lagos Records Over 6.5 Million Voters

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC,) has announced that Lagos has now recorded over 6.5million voters after the continuous voters registration exercise.
Accordingly to the Head of the Voter Education and Publicity in Lagos State, Mrs Ijeoma Okey-Igbokwe at the maiden edition of the 2019 public lecture on good governance organised by the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, themed: The power of the electorate in a democracy: Nigeria as a case study.
He stressed the relevance of the electorate in the voting process, adding that the power of the electorate in an election cannot be over-emphasised and with 8,642 polling units and 245 Registration areas in Lagos, she assured that INEC would ensure violence free elections.
She cautioned against vote buying, saying: “If you do not sell your vote there will be no case of vote buying. It is you the electorate that decide whether or not there will be vote buying.”
Other participants who spoke at the forum attributed security and the judicial system to some of the challenges undermining the powers of the electorate and called on INEC to ensure a credible, free and fair election devoid of violence.