Demnet Nigeria (Democracy Network) has charged Nigerians especially the youth to register with Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and actively participate in politics and take the country’s political scene by storm.
Speaking at the sensitisation Programme on Voters Registration and Political Participation in Nigeria at the University of Abuja, Department of Political Science and International Relations, the Team Lead, Democracy Network (Demnet – Nigeria), Barrister Uzoma Aneto said Demnet was a Democracy Network that people who are interested in seeing that democracy works in Africa.
She said Demnet was spreading to over 11 African countries like Liberia, Kenya, Angola, Madagascar and others.
Barrister Uzoma stated that for us here in Nigeria, we have proposed a campaign which will help or prompt INEC to continue voters registration as provided for under section 10 of the electoral Act.”
She said the significant of this programme was to sensitise the minds of young people here in the University of Abuja to begin to speak out that they want the real meaning of the true spirit of the Electoral Act to begin to work.
This she said would enable them to walk into any INEC office and do their registration and get their voters card, just like they could walk into a licenses office and get your Licence.
The team lead called on INEC to start registering those who have turned 18 years, pointing out that INEC had come up with some excuses of logistics.
In his welcome remarks, the Head of Department (HOD), Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Abuja, Professor Sherrif Ghali Ibrahim, appreciated the effort Demnet – Nigeria and urged all eligible Nigerians to rise and collect their voters’ card instead of waiting until the time of elections.
He said that was the only way they can go to the polls to vote and defend your vote as a patriotic citizen.
