INEC Voters Registrations: Low Voter registration in Katsina worries the commission

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Katsina State's INEC has expressed its worry over the poor turnout of residents registering for the Permanent Voter Card in the newly formed 1,750 polling units in that state.

Alhaji Jibril Zarewa, the state's Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC, was the one that revealed this on Friday when interviewed by the News Agency of Nigeria.

According to him, one year after the commencement of PVC registration, the turnout of people for registration was poor in the newly formed polling units.

Alhaji Jibril Zarewa said:

In May 2022, when we did the analysis, we realized out of the 1,750 newly established polling units, about 1,200 units did not have more than 50 people who registered in each of them. 

This registration involved transfers. Some of the polling units have zero registration, some have only one, some five, while some have not more than 50 people who registered.

Although this can be attributed to the suspension of telecommunication networks in 17 of the 34 Local Government Areas for about five months due to the security problem.

Since the resumption of the exercise in March, out of the 1,750 polling units created, about 1,200 don't have up to 50 people that registered in each of them.

We are appealing to the people of those areas where the new polling units were created to go and register, as INEC is always ready for them.

The reasons for the creation of additional polling units is to serve the areas and decongest the congested polling units through the transfer of their polling units.

He said that there were 4,902 units in Katsina before now, but more units were created, making it 6,652 polling units currently.

He further explained that: 

As at that time, we had about three per cent of our cards collected, which means out of the 3.230 million PVCs we had, just about 50,000 were not collected.

As of Jan. 12, 2022, we have taken 53,000 from the headquarters, and just a few days ago, we have taken an additional 20,000 for people who made corrections.

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