The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) says it now demands international passport or
driver’s licence in a situation where the age of the voter is in doubt as
against birth certificate stipulated by the law.
The commission said it was part
of measure being put in place to ensure that underage persons were not allowed
to register.
Head of Department, Voter
Education and Publicity, FCT, Ms. Ndidi Okafor, disclosed this yesterday in
Abuja at a programme organised by the Progressive Impact Organisation for
Community Development (PRIMORG).
She revealed that the first
quarter of INEC registration exercise which started in January 8, 2018, will
end this week.
Okafor stated: “The law says you
should come with birth certificate. Now, what the commission is doing is trying
to ensure that in the FCT and across the country, we don’t have underage people
coming to register.
“That is why sometimes when the
officers are not too sure that you are qualified, they would demand
international passport or driver licence.
“But for those who have just
turned 18, they will have to come with their birth certificate or their
baptismal card just for us to make sure that we are complying with the laws.”
On what INEC was doing to make
voters’ registration less stressful in the FCT, she said: “When this exercise
started nationwide on April 27, 2017, we started with just six centres, by
then, there were demands for more centres.
“The commission then yielded to
the demands of the people and gave 16 additional centres; we had 22 and then an
additional 10.
“We have 32 centres, but we are
not where we used to be, however, what the commission has done is to do what we
call rotation within the wards so that we can get to difficult terrains and the
rural areas so that we can have them registered.”
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