By Awaal Gata
Abuja
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it was logistically impossible for it to extend the just second phase of Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise.
The phase, which commenced on August 20, 2014, and ended yesterday, involved the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and 11 states namely Yobe, Bauchi, Jigawa, Sokoto, Kwara, Anambra, Ebonyi, Ondo, Oyo Delta and Cross River.
However, a press statement by the Chief Secretary to the Commission’s Chairman, Kayode Idowu, yesterday, said the Commission “noted with concern the agitation in some quarters for an extension of the phase of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR),” but had no logistics powers to do so.
The statement said the Commission, consequently, would soon announce a date for the setting up of registration points at its local government offices “where people who were not able to register could do so.”
It said: “Much as the Commission is eager to ensure that all legitimate persons who are yet to register as voters have the opportunity to do so, it is logistically impossible to extend this phase of the CVR beyond its scheduled deadline (yesterday).
“But in order to give fair chance to legitimate registrants, the Commission will, on a date to be shortly announced, set up registration points at its Local Government Area (LGA) offices where people yet to do so can go to register.”
