THE Edo State House of Assembly resumed
plenary yesterday calling for the extension of the
continuous voters’ registration exercise in the
State for another one week so as to capture
more voters in the State.
The House passed the resolution after the
Deputy Speaker of the House, Justin Okonoboh,
raised the issue under matters of urgent public
importance, lamenting that they are still many
Edo indigenes who are willing to vote in the
forthcoming governorship election, but they are
yet to register due to several problems.
The House urged INEC to make more machines
and other registration materials available within
the period, urging further that they should
embark on sensitization tour of the communities
regretting that most people in the rural
communities are still not aware that the exercise
was going on.
The House also called for necessary modalities to
distribute the uncollected 400,000 Permanent
Voters Cards so as to limit the incident of double
registration during the exercise. Speaker of the
House, Elizabeth Ativie, directed the House
Committee on Education to liaise with the INEC
to ensure compliance with the resolution.
Speaker Ativie, who stressed the need for the
exercise to be extended for another one week
pointed out that the incidence of the voters who
were not captured in the exercise cuts across all
council areas of the State.
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