INEC registers 113,255 new voters in Kogi
Story from Rabi’atu, Lokoja
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has registered 113,255 new voters in the continuation of the voters’ exercises in Kogi State.
The Kogi State Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC, Professor James Apam, disclosed this while speaking to newsmen in Lokoja.
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He noted that the figure is made up of 50,854 males and 62,401 females, stressing that the continuous voter registration that they are conducting now is even more important than that conducted earlier in March 2021.
Professor Apam said the Commission successfully carried out the expansion of voter access exercise.
“In this exercise, we converted the previous voting points to full-fledged pooling units and removed them to places that were underserved thus providing greater and better access to voters.
“These previous voting points existed where we had more than 750 registered voters,” he said.
According to him, from March, they will increase their presence by extending these registration centres to the Registration Areas (RAs) adding that every electoral officer has an itinerary of how their mobile teams will visit every Registration Area to register new voters, enable the already registered voters to transfer their voting points or update their personal information.
Professor Apam posited that the current quarter which is the 3rd will start on the 22nd of March to the 1st of April 2022.
He said that the recently signed into law of 2022 Electoral Act, has affected the earlier dates fixed by the Commission for the conduct of the general election next year.
The Commissioner pointed out that the Presidential and National Assembly election will hold on Saturday, 25 February 2023 while the Governorship and State Assembly election will also hold on Saturday, 11th March 2023.
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