The House of Representatives has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to clean its voters’ register by removing names of dead persons and fictitious registered voters.
This followed the adoption of a motion on matters of urgent public importance by Leke Abejide (ADC, Kogi) at the plenary yesterday.
Presenting the motion, Abejide alleged that INEC’s register is full of millions of people who had died and non-existent persons.
He said in the last general election, it was glaring and crystal clear that people who were long dead had their names still displayed in the voters’ register.
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He said, “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 register of voters.
“It is believed that this came to being as a result of double or multiple registrations by Nigerians who had or have the intention of rigging elections but with the advent of Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS), these faceless individuals can no longer vote.”
The house therefore urges INEC to conduct vigorous public enlightenment for all Nigerians to be aware of what makes the voters’ register bogus which is the numbers of dead and fictitious persons.
The house also called on INEC to develop a mechanism or software application where each of the families that lost their loved ones can report the demise of a member with a particular PVC number so that it can be duly deleted from the INEC register, polling unit, and ward.
The house also asked INEC to delete the name of whoever does not vote in two election cycles back to back and mandated its committee on electoral matters to ensure compliance.
