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178,000 voters registered
so far in Lagos
THREE weeks into the on-going voters registration, only 178,000 out of an
estimated eight million eligible voters in Lagos state have so far been
registered.
A dependable source at the Lagos State Office of INEC disclosed this to The
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) .
An investigation by NAN also revealed that only 210 Direct Data Capture (DDC)
Machines are currently in use for the exercise in the state.
``The INEC is yet to figure out how to cope with the 8,465 registration
units in the state which require a minimum of 2,000 DDC machines for any
meaningful voter registration,'' the source added.
Meanwhile, the Action Congress (AC) in Lagos warned that it would embark on
a protest next week if INEC refused to revert to manual registration, as
demanded by the political parties.
AC's Interim Secretary, Alhaji Lateef Raji, decried the refusal of INEC to
listen to good counsel, warning that if nothing was urgently done, many
Nigerians would be disenfranchised in 2007.
Raji stressed that most political parties, including the AC, had lost
confidence in the registration process.
Prof. Lateef Hussain, the Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU),
also decried the situation, lamenting that the exercise had yet to get to
the university community.
``We have a good number of units here in the university, but I keep
wondering where the INEC officers are,'' he said.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19 2006