The Impartial Nationwide Electoral Commission (INEC) has implored Nigerians, especially youths, to accumulate fascinated about deepening the nation’s democracy, reasonably than criticise its processes.

“We ought to level-headed no longer merely lament, criticise and condemn. We have to accumulate entangled for the good of our democracy and the nation,” INEC chairman Mahmood Yakubu mentioned.

Speaking on the cost’s consultative assembly with civil society organisations (CSOs) on Wednesday in Abuja, Mr Yakubu informed them to sensitise voters, especially the youths who constituted the increased proportion in the voter register to reach abet out and vote on election days.

“We can continue to work with all stakeholders, especially the civil society organisations to sensitise the youths and other classes of voters to be sure that that that beyond registration, they reach out and vote on election days,” he added.

He liked the role of CSOs in encouraging and mobilising eligible Nigerians who hang no longer registered to enact so.

“For folks that hang executed the registration, the cost is correct now enterprise the most comprehensive cleaning up of the tips to be sure that that that simplest eligible residents are added to the voters’ register for the 2023 total elections,” wired Mr Yakubu. “We can share our findings with Nigerians very rapidly. The actual dates for the sequence of the Permanent Voter Playing cards (PVCs) nationwide can even be launched very rapidly.”

On the elections in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), he explained that in the next couple of weeks INEC would intensify stakeholder engagements, the monitoring of campaigns by political parties, and preparations for election day activities.

On the distribution of voters to polling objects in the FCT, Mr Yakubu disclosed that 593 out of 2,822 (21 per cent) of the complete PUs in the territory did no longer hang voter playing cards.

(NAN)