INEC extends voters registration in 12 States
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the extension of the second phase of its Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise by seven days.
According to the statement, the exercise which began yesterday (Monday, September 22) will end on Sunday, September 28, 2014, from 8am to 4pm each day.
This exercise will take effect in 12 states; Anambra, Bauchi, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, FCT, Jigawa, Kwara, Ondo, Oyo, Sokoto and Yobe.
It will be recalled that the commission had earlier refused to extend the exercise despite complaints by many eligible voters that they were prevented from register due to heavy downpour when the exercise began on August 20.
Instead, INEC said it would create special centres in each of local government area in the affected states for people who were unable to register when the exercise ended on August 25 to do so.
But in a statement yesterday, according to LEADERSHIP newspaper, the commission said the extension was “occasioned by the large turnout of eligible voters and the heavy rains that coincided with the exercise which took place from August 20-25, 2014”.
It advised eligible voters in the affected states to take advantage of the extension to register in order to vote in the 2015 general elections.
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