Thousands of people from the various Local Government Areas in Imo State staged a peaceful demonstration at the Government House Owerri today demanding to know why the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is dragging its feet concerning the ongoing voter registration exercise.
According to the demonstrators, most of the eligible voters are yet to be registered while those who registered in 2011 were unable to receive their voters card from INEC.
The reason for INEC's failure in the exercise has been blamed on the poor state of preparedness of the commission to handle the exercise, for instance, each polling unit in the State comprising of over 4,000 voters is being attended to by only one INEC official with one dysfunctional computer.
The demonstrators insist that INEC has failed woefully in this very important exercise and called for the extension of the exercise.
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