The Independent National Electoral Commission on Wednesday shed more light on why some states were recording low turnout for the collection of Permanent Voter Cards since the commencement of the exercise.
“During the Continuous Voter Registration exercise, we appealed to people to come out; they didn’t until the last week, then we had this huge turnout. They started blaming INEC. We have a terrible culture of not coming out and that is why we have started advocating and appealing to everybody not to wait until the last minute.
Speaking on women’s participation in PVC collection and voting, he disclosed that out of the 93,469,008 registered voters for the 2023 general election, women voters constitute 44,414846 or 48 per cent, while the men constitute 49,054162 or 52 percent and the youths constitute 37,060,399 or 40 per cent.
The INEC commissioner, however, stressed the need for women to translate the data into actual reality and voting force, maintaining that women need to rise above all socioeconomic and political factors militating against them. The acting Director in INEC, Lakunuya Bello, expressed the commission’s commitment to ensure that the nation’s political landscape will continue to provide a level playing field for the participation of all citizens in the electoral process irrespective of gender.
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