Inability to vote outside registration area fuelling apathy – INEC

, noting that if all the people on election duty, including ad hoc and permanent INEC staff, security agents, local observers, etc., could vote anywhere they were on election days, it would boost voter participation significantly.

Local and foreign election observers, political parties, individuals and stakeholders had expressed concern over the voter apathy, especially during the March 18 governorship and state House of Assembly elections. In the presidential election, participation was said to be less than 30 per cent, while many people believed that it dropped further in many states during the governorship election.

In an interview with our correspondent on Saturday, the Chief Press secretary to the INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, said, “Voter apathy is a worldwide phenomenon and not limited to Nigeria. Since the advent of democracy in 1999, voter turnout has hovered between 25 and 65 per cent. The highest voter turnout we have had, according to records, occurred in 1999 , 2003 and 2007 .

“Theorists have offered various explanations for low voter turnout, but I think one of the big challenges facing voters in Nigeria is the provision of the law that says you can only vote where you registered. What this means is that if, perchance, you are out of your area on election day, you cannot vote. This category includes thousands of security officials, ad hoc staff, local observers and even INEC staff that are deployed to the field for the conduct of elections.

He said these individuals on election duty could be between two million and 2.5 million, which he said was more than the population of some West African countries.

Rigging, violence, intimidation from desperation politicians and.INEC insincerity and lack of transparency in conducting free, fair and credible elections are the causes of voters apathy.

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