By Daniel Tyokua
Despite the expiration of Continuous Voter Registration (CVR), the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) and the traditional rulers have sought extension of the exercise by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
This is coming as the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) deadline, July 31 earlier extended by the electoral body ends.
Senior Special Assistant on Community Relations to the minister of FCT, Yamawo Tanko made the appeal on Friday, when he visited the palaces of Ona of Abaji Yunusa Baba, and the Se’peyi of Garki Usman Nga-Kupi to assess the level of PVC registration exercise.
Yamawo said the FCT Administration was concerned over the free and fair exercise, and would always evolve measures that will ease the registration.
He explained that the exercise was slow in the territory because of few data capture machines in circulation, which he said the registration should be extended to two weeks .
Yamawo said without voter card, Abuja residents would not select the people of their choice to represent them.
“We are visiting palace to palace to sensitisze them on the issue of voter registration, the registration is in progress likely it will be closed tomorrow. We want the traditional rulers to mobilize their people to come out en mass to register.
“The machines are not enough, even the available ones are slow, if you go to the registration centre people are stranded no machines to capture them. Therefore, we are calling on INEC to extend the registration, is not as if people are not coming out but the machines are not enough, so is difficult to capture the number of voters that come out”
