EXTEND VOTERS REGISTRATION
NIGERIANS DEMAND

Nigerians who missed yesterday’s deadline for the Continuous Voters Registration, or CVR, have urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, to prolong the process.
According to DAILY POST, a number of registration sites were overwhelmed on Sunday by impatient Nigerians trying to beat the deadline set by the electoral commission on June 25.
Recall that INEC has extended the deadline for applications for the Permanent Voter’s Card from June 30 to July 31 in 2022 to allow eligible Nigerians to do so before the general elections in 2023.
However, despite the program being expanded to include churches and other locations in an effort to promote registration, many Nigerians have not yet done so.

Intent voters were furious and claiming there were conspiracies to deny some Nigerians the right to vote on Sunday when DAILY POST visited some places in Abuja.

Mr. Ojo K.T., one of the irate PVC applicants, said to our correspondent in the Kubwa CVR center that he had been trying to register since Monday.

He said: “I think they just don’t want us to vote. Look at the people that are going to be denied the opportunity to participate in the election. What is wrong in this country?
“If you look around, you will notice that most of us here that have been here since 3am this morning are youths. They are afraid of the revolution that is coming and that is why they are deliberately pushing us away”.
He asserted that protest is the only language that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari can comprehend, adding that “we must take to the streets to demand the continuation of the exercise.”
Nobody should trample on our right to vote.

According to DAILY POST, several of the clinics lack the necessary exercise equipment.

Despite the large number of people who have flocked to the site since the activity started, there were only two computers in the INEC office in Bwari.

Goodluck Ibem, the President General of the Coalition of South East Youth Leaders, COSEYL, expressed regret that some Southeast residents were unable to register for the exercise in an interview with DAILY POST.
He said, “The 2022 voters’ registration exercise looks like a calculated attempt by some politicians to deny the people of Southeast the opportunity of registering for their voter’s card”.
“In the North, we are very aware that the INEC provided sufficient and adequate registration materials for the exercise”, he added.
However, the INEC National Commissioner for Voter Education and Publicity, Barr. Festus Okoye, ruled out the prospect of extending the exercise in a conversation with journalists on Saturday in Awka, the capital of Anambra State.

GOGAN Media.