MMN Presidential candidate wants more time for voter registration
Major Mojisola Adekunle-Obasanjo, presidential candidate of the Masses Movement of Nigeria (MMN), has called on INEC to extend the ongoing voter registration hours beyond 5 p.m.
Adekunle-Obasanjo told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), today in Lagos, that only such an extension would help INEC avoid disenfranchising some Nigerians in the April 2007 elections.
``With about three months into the voter registration, which commenced on Oct. 25, 2006, majority of Nigerians have yet to be registered,'' she noted.
``The registration officials should be made to put in some extra time at this period, beyond the usual 4 p.m. or 5.00 p.m., because that is just about when most voters usually return to their homes,'' she added.
Adekunle-Obasanjo recalled that there had been instances where the batteries of the Direct Data Capture Machines went flat and because they couldn't be immediately recharged, the registration officials had to pack up for the day.
She said INEC had only been able to register about three million voters in Lagos, out of an estimated nine million voters.
The MMM presidential candidate also called on the EFCC to immediately commence investigations into INEC's arrangements for the 2007 elections.
``All contracts awarded by the commission should be investigated and those contractors who have been unable to meet the terms of their agreements should be exposed and prosecuted.''
According to her, Nigerian tax payers should know how INEC expended its election funds, ahead of the elections scheduled for April.