INEC: Voter Apathy, Threat to Nigeria’s Electoral Process
By Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will soon begin serious voter education across Ekiti State to avert the recurrence of voter apathy experienced in previous elections that has the capacity to undermine the electoral process.
Speaking in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday, the INEC Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr. Taiwo Gbadegesin, said the commission only recorded less than 50 per cent turnout in the 2014 governorship election, describing this as worrisome to the commission.
The Governor of Ekiti State and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Ayodele Fayose, won the election with a total vote of 203,090 as against 120,433 polled by Dr Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) while the state’s registered voters were 732,833.
Gbadegesin added that the commission has established voter education clubs in all the public secondary schools in the state to complement the sensitisation programmes lined up by INEC in preparedness for the 2018 poll.
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