CVR: INEC solicits stakeholders’ support in Niger

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has solicited the support of stakeholders in its quest to mobilise eligible voters In Niger State to participate in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR).
Prof. Samuel Egwu, INEC Resident Electoral Commission (REC) in the state, who made the appeal yesterday in Minna, active involvement in the exercise will armed the electorate with the power to decide those that will run affairs in 2019.
Therefore, he appealed to traditional and religious leaders to assist the commission by persuading eligible but unregistered voters to participate in the exercise.
Egwu explained that INEC was currently rotating its personnel across the state to ensure that it registered all eligible residents.
He said the personnel would also attend to voters seeking to transfer their voting units from where they were originally registered to other locations among others.
“We have also reached out to leaders of political parties, development associations and the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) to fully mobilise their eligible members to register,” he said.
Egwu also called on the mass media to initiate more enlightenment programmes that would help educate residents to get registered to enable them elect credible leaders during the 2019 general elections.
The news men report that similar exercises were ongoing in other states of the country.

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