Voters registration: KNSG mobilises citizens to beat deadline
By UMAR DANLADI ADO

KANO state government has assured all eligible voters that they will exercise their civic right in the on-going voter revalidation as scheduled.
The chairman, Kano State Monitoring Committee on the Voters’ Revalidation exercise, Alhaji Ibrahim Garba, gave the assurance at a joint meeting with the 44 local government sole administrators at Government House, Kano yesterday.
Alhaji Garba, who is the state commissioner of information was represented by the state commissioner of commerce and industry, Alhaji Ahmad Ibrahim Yakasai.
The commissioner said the joint meeting was necessary in order to assess, analyse and explore means of solving the problems identified in some local government areas.
According to him, presently, a total of 2.8 million people have been registered as against the over four million people registered during the 1999 general elections.
Similarly, Alhaji Garba announced that the state government has directed all its 44 local government councils to inaugurate enlightenment committees in order to sensitise their eligible voters with a view to ensuring full participation in the exercise.
He further stated that the state government has been zoned into three senatorial zones to facilitate easy voters’ revalidation exercise.
The chairman, expressed dismay over the failure by some local governments to inaugurate such monitoring committee in their respective areas.
Alhaji Garba reaffirmed the government’s directive to the local governments to comply in order to ensure that all eligible voters are registered before January 31, which is the stipulated date to end the exercise.