Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and the Diaspora, made the call at a Diaspora Leadership Conference, organised by the Nigerian Consulate in New York, U.S.
She said that while the Independent National Electoral Commission had indicated its readiness for Diaspora voting, the lawmakers were uncomfortable with the idea for reasons unknown to her. “But we have to make it happen. If Ghana and Sierra Leone, smaller countries are doing Diaspora voting, why can’t we?“INEC has said they are ready. President Muhammadu Buhari told you when he met you that he is ready.In 2016, the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, said the commission was “determined to providing Nigerians living outside the country the opportunity to have a say in determining who will be our leaders”.
The News Agency of Nigeria report that for now, any Nigerian based overseas wishing to vote in the country’s elections has to return home to do so, a mission considered too expensive by many.
To what end? When INEC is saying we are not ripe for electronic voting? And the diasporic people are used to it?
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