Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the cancellation of no fewer than four million voters from its record across the nation for their involvement in multiple registration.
The Commission’s chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega made this known today when he briefed newsmen in Abuja.
Jega said that the Commission was supposed to have prosecuted those who were involved in such sharp practices but that it lacked both manpower and financial resources to do so.
According to him, most of the complaints coming from voters about none issuance of Permanent Voters Cards were as a result of such cancellation, adding: “we cannot issue Permanent Voters Cards to those who engaged in multiple registration.”
He gave a rundown of how INEC has embarked on cleaning up of the electoral process since he became its chairman, saying that correct register is the first step towards credible election.
Jega expressed confident that with what the Commission had done so far, the 2015 general elections will be better conducted more than the 2011 “which was even adjudged as the best.”
The INEC boss insisted that next year’s elections would be held all over the country, including the trouble spots like Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, hoping that the security operatives would do their own part of the job well.
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