Politics
Why dead persons cannot be removed from voter register — INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has blamed its inability to remove dead persons from voter register on the absence of reliable data of births and deaths.
Speaking on the matter, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, said; “The commission displays the voter register for claims and objections but few Nigerians pay attention to the process. Nigerians must assist the commission to clean up the voter register by coming forward to point out deceased individuals or those that are not supposed to be in the voter register.
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“Secondly, the country does not have reliable data of births and deaths and the commission cannot engage in arbitrary removal of the names of individuals it suspects are deceased.
“Our new software currently in use has been robust and has been detecting multiple registrants.
“We as a people and as a country must not condone and or connive in community aided and politically motivated under age registration. This commission is resolved and determined to prosecute all electoral infractions.”
