Northern Groups To INEC: Decentralise Voters’ Registration To Accommodate Rural Voters

The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, to create more points for the Continuous Voters’ Registration exercise to capture more people living in rural communities.

The CNG said the current arrangement for the exercise does not favour the living realities of Nigeria’s rural voters, hence, it has the potency to disenfranchise most of them ahead of the upcoming 2023 general elections in the country.

This is contained in the Communique issued at the end of a sensitisation workshop CNG organised for over 200 participants in Bauchi.

The Communique signed by the Bauchi State Coordinator of CNG, Bello Aminu, said the electoral umpire should establish rural registration points to encourage rural voters to register so as to be qualified to vote, thereby capturing the rural populace that is ill-informed or uninformed at all about the exercise.

It calls for support of such events from the government at all levels towards overcoming voter apathy among the larger society.

The communiqué said votes buying must be resisted by youth, and political participation advocated among all genders for effective and unbiased representation.

It adds that the trainees are mandated to ensure they impact what they have learnt to others from the grassroots.

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