The Presidency has directed the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu to slow down the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration in Nigeria, IGBERE TV learned. The presidency according to LeadersNG sources is jittery over massive turn out of people in different registration centers across Nigeria.
The Presidency has directed the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu to slow down the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration in Nigeria, IGBERE TV learned.
The presidency according to LeadersNG sources is jittery over massive turn out of people in different registration centers across Nigeria.
Professor Mahmood Yakubu is scheduled to meet with INEC commissioners next week to discuss the new directive of the Villa.
An INEC source could not tell our correspondent on why the chairman is summoning the commissioners to Abuja for an emergency meeting, but the presidency source confirmed to LeadersNG that the meeting was as a result of the directive from the Villa.
A highly placed INEC source who preferred anonymity said, the Presidency is worried over the massive campaign and sensitization being carried out by interest groups, opposition leaders and churches on the need for Nigerians to obtain their PVC as that is the only way they can effect change in 2019.
Sources said the new eligible voters might likely vote against the president and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC due to insecurity, massive corruption, unemployment and slow pace of progress being witnessed in the country as against hundreds of campaign promises made by the ruling party.
LeadersNG correspondent who visited some churches within the city center confirmed that churches have embarked on PVC sensitization drive with many boldly displaying the message enjoining members to go get registered.
LeadersNG further learned that the presidency believes the massive registration that is ongoing across Nigeria is an another grand plot by opposition forces to vote the president out in 2019.
The Presidency according to sources is worried about the number of people that are being registered in Southern part of Nigeria where the President’s popularity is on the average.
Lagos for instance, witnesses over two thousand people daily getting registered.
The registration which is scheduled to continue till November maybe temporarily suspended in Southern part of the country, the source said.
All efforts to reach the INEC spokesperson on phone as at the time of filing this report proved abortive as his lines were switched off.
