The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), has stated that there is no going back on the July 31st deadline for Continuous Voter Registration.
INEC’s position on the deadline was made known by its National Commissioner, Voter Education and Publicity, Barr. Festus Okoye while speaking with Journalists in Akwa, Anambra state capital on Saturday.
He stressed that the registration exercise should ordinarily end today with no plans for extension.
He explained that the electoral body had in many ways intervened to ensure all intending voters are captured.
He stated that the commission had in the last few weeks, extended registration centers to both churches and other places to mitigate the surging crowd.
He said, “Few weeks we isolated places to carry out intervention; we took machines to markets, churches, NUJ, NYSC orientation camp and other places due to large concentration.
“This helped to mitigate the surging crowd. For complaints over the performance of our staff, we developed a compliant desk for people to voice out their complaints”.
Meanwhile, there have been several calls by the public demanding an extension for the voter registration exercise ahead of the 2023 general elections.