The House of Representatives has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to remove named of dead Nigerians and the likes from its voters register.
The House made the call at the plenary on Thursday, following the unanimous adoption of a motion of urgent national importance moved by a member, Leke Abejide.
Presenting the motion titled ‘Urgent Need for Independent National Electoral Commission to Develop Mechanism to Clean Up Its System of Dead and Fictitious Registered Voters.’, Abejide noted that INEC’s register is full of millions of people who are dead and non-existent persons.
He said, “In the last general election, it was glaring and crystal clear that people that were long dead had their names still displayed in the voters’ register. Even my own deceased father, who passed on long ago, still has his name displayed on the board.
“Apart from dead voters, there are millions of fictitious voters who do not exist anywhere on this planet earth but have their names on INEC’s register of voters. It is believed that this came to be as a result of double or multiple registrations by Nigerians who had or have the intention of rigging elections, but with the advent of the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System, these faceless individuals can no longer vote anymore.”
The House, having adopted the motion, resolved that “INEC should conduct vigorous public enlightenment for all Nigerians to be much aware of what makes the voters register bogus, which is the numbers of dead and fictitious persons.”
