INEC To Permit Prison Inmates To Vote – Commissioner

The Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) has revealed its intention to permit prisoners to vote in elections.

On Wednesday, November 10, Dr Adekunle Ogunmola, the Nationwide Commissioner of INEC’s Outreach and Participation Committee (OPC), acquired Rev. Fr Jude Isiguzo, the Government Director of CAPIO, who led his crew on an advocacy tour to the INEC workplaces.

By way of the Pollrite 23 undertaking, Fr Isiguzo has urged for the enforcement of Nigerian inmates’ voting rights, notably because the 2023 basic election attracts close to.

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Ogunmola stated;

 “It’s like you’re preaching to the transformed as a result of the fee has tried to do one thing in that course prior to now.

“I remembered that the response of the Chairman is at all times that there can be a necessity for additional interplay with the correctional companies in order to have the ability to decide the modus operand of reaching that.”

“I need to say that your goal of guaranteeing that the rights of inmates are protected, not less than with reference to participation within the electoral course of is one thing that’s a part of the imaginative and prescient of the fee as a result of within the strategic plan of the fee in 2022 to 2026, there’s an modification to the imaginative and prescient and that’s inclusivity.

“Nicely, we now have at all times maintained that we need to give Nigerians free, honest and credible election however we are actually altering it to incorporate inclusive election.

“I need to guarantee you that this go to will spur the fee to make sure that motion is taken on this course.”

INEC To Allow Jail Inmates To Vote

INEC To Allow Jail Inmates To Vote