Ekiti Guber Election:

INEC Presents  Publication of Electronic Voter's Register

...as women constitute 52% of voters population

The Independent Electoral Commission(INEC) has rolled out the electronic voters register as part of her preparation for the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Ekiti State.

The event took place at Ilera loro multipurpose hall in Ado Ekiti the Ekiti state capital on 18th May 2022. The Deputy Director of INEC ICT  Abuja, Mrs Abimbola Oladunjoye who took the participants on a journey of upgraded methods of voting technically which is different from the previous elections held in the state.

According to Mrs Abimbola, The Independent Electoral Commission in its bid to curtail electoral crimes such as multiple voting, impersonating, multiple registration and manual transmission of election results have resolved to introduce  Bio metrics and ABIS( Automated Biometrics Identification system) which will make the process of identifying voters facially, finger prints and proper documentation of eligible voters. She also cleared the air on some alleged voters who were declared invalid as people with multiple or incomplete registrations.

In his own words, Mr. Paul Ayaeze in  his presentation gave the breakdown of the additional polling units  in Ekiti state and that some voters have been transferred to the nearest new polling units while admonishing voters to take advantage of the technology advancement of voting  to come out and exercise their rights.

Earlier, the Resident Electoral commissioner, Dr. Tella Adeniran gave a breakdown of the total voters in Ekiti as 720, 742 with Ado Ekiti having 59, 742 eligible voters and Ilejemeje with the lowest eligible voters.

He also disclosed that women  constitute 52 percent of the voters strength with Men falling behind with 49 percent while 42 percent were invalidated due to multiple registrations and incomplete data.

Dr. Tella also use the opportunity to warn political parties to  register their agents on the portal or risk not having agents during the election at all while calling on political parties to sensitize their members on the need to trust Inec in conducting free and fair election.

Mr. Oludipe Victor representing the commissioner of police assured the stakeholders of adequate security before during and after the elections.

The political parties were later presented with  electronic voters register.