The card reader will not be the basis for accreditation for Kogi electorate at the forthcoming local government council election on December 12.
This was stated by the Kogi State Independent Electoral Commission (KOSIEC) chairman, Hon. Mamman Nda Eri, who also said that over 1.3 million voters are eligible to vote in the local councils’ election.
He stated that card readers would not be used for the polls as such provision were not included in its guidelines but voter’s card and voter’s register provided for by the INEC would be largely relied on.
Eri, who stated this in Lokoja, Monday, during a stakeholders’ meeting to announced the notice of the election as required by law, also said the 1,340,963 eligible voters were registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), adding that KOSIEC would use the list provided by INEC to conduct free and fair councils election in the state.
On whether there would be further increase, he said: “This figure cannot increase because the INEC did not conduct any voter’s registration since the last election.
We also bear in mind that the figure can only decrease as a result of movement of people from one place to another and death, which apparently is inevitable,” he said.
