No Nigerian political party has complete register of members – INEC

The Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC, says no political occasion in Nigeria has an entire register of its members.

DAILY POST experiences that Chairman of the Fee, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, made the comment throughout a chat with newsmen in Benin Metropolis.

Yakubu, who challenged political events which have an entire register to supply it, famous that they’re all ready for the Fee to do every little thing for them, even these which might be inside their purvey.

Noting that INEC has the biggest database of residents in Nigeria, Yakubu famous that the Fee has 93 hundreds of thousands residents which have accomplished their biometrics on its register.

He mentioned “As at at present INEC has the biggest database of residents in Nigeria of 93 hundreds of thousands residents who’ve accomplished their biometrics. We’re nonetheless ready for political events to present us the entire information of register of their members even in a single ward.

“There isn’t a political occasion that has full register of its members even in a single ward. However once they come to a gathering like this, they are going to be calling us to do every little thing.

“What’s your contributions as a political occasion to the development of our democratic course of? If there’s any occasion that has full register of its members in Edo State let me see it by a present of arms. Then I’ll convey the report you submitted to INEC and show that they aren’t saying the reality. I stand to be corrected.

“There was a time once we mentioned all of the information ought to be dropped at Abuja, What did you hear? You hear some events saying we’ve got the information however the logistics of transferring the registers from the ward to Abuja is so huge.

“However of a fact, they don’t have any.”

Yakubu famous that the continuing Steady Voters Registration train was to allow eligible voters within the state to register to vote, exchange and switch Everlasting Voters Playing cards, PVCs, to a spot of their alternative.

Whereas disagreeing with claims that the youths have misplaced confidence within the Fee because of the end result of the conduct of the 2023 common elections, he posited that the overwhelming majority of these which might be presently collaborating within the ongoing CVR in Edo and Ondo states are between 18 and 34 years.

“Once I went round Benin yesterday, nearly all of the folks I noticed at CVR centres had been younger folks. They don’t seem to be disconnected.

“On a regular basis I obtain an replace on the full variety of registered voters, whole variety of requests for switch, alternative for playing cards in Edo and Ondo states.

“The replace I acquired for day 4 in Edo, the overwhelming majority of those that registered and utilized for switch are younger Nigerians between the ages of 18 and 34 years. The sample mirrored in the identical manner over the last common elections.

“For us we’re empirical folks. We cope with information earlier than us. We hardly speak about feelings. In actual fact the overwhelming majority of those who registered in Edo and Ondo are college students. These are younger folks and are usually not grownup training folks,” he added.