PDP tells INEC: prioritize election integrity over polling units extension
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| Why can’t we've digital vote casting connected to voters’ ID and the election may be accomplished online |
Lagos State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has entreated the Independent National Electoral Commission to prioritize election integrity over the extension of polling units in advance of 2023 polls.
Lagos PDP Spokesperson, Taofik Gani, informed the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Sunday, that INEC have to alternatively direct its efforts at attaining sturdy electoral reform that could make people’s votes count.
Gani stated, "The problems of INEC and suitable election strategies are past polling units. Creating one hundred PUs on a avenue won’t alternate the integrity trouble in our elections.
"Why can’t we've digital vote casting connected to voters’ ID and the election may be accomplished online."
NAN reviews that 25 years after the last introduction of polling units in Nigeria, INEC on February 5, started engagement with stakeholders on extension of voters’ get right of entry to to polling units.
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on the commission’s stakeholders assembly with political parties leaders in Abuja, stated increasing voter get approach to polling units changed into important to voter turnout in elections.
Yakubu stated the enjoy had proven that superior voter get entry to polling units expanded turnout in elections.
In a conversation signed through the sixteen parties substantially present on the assembly, leaders of the parties resolved that there has been benefit in INEC’s suggestion in changing the present vote casting factors and balloting factors agreement national to full-fledged polling units to cope with the hassle of voter get entry to.
They additionally resolved that the commission need to start the procedure of conversion primarily based totally on sincerely articulated suggestions to be evolved through INEC and shared with stakeholders.
INEC presently has 119,973 Polling Units throughout the country.