Dear compatriots,
I wish to draw your attention to the fact that INEC National Register of voters for 2011 election contained a total of 73,528,040. The actual total turnout of voters in the 2011 election that declared President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan the winner was 38,464,463 or 52.3% voters turnout. The question Okey Iheduru should help us answer in relation to the 2011 Presidential election is, what happened to the 35,063,577 or 47.7% registered voters that failed to vote in 2011? Almost half of total registered voters that did not turn out to vote could not be attributed to voters' apathy alone. Rather, the Nigerian factor or syndrome of multiple and fictitious registrations must have accounted for the absence of large number of voters at the polling stations on election day.
Now in 2015, the total number of registered voters, according to INEC is 68,917,121. Just like 2011, this registration was done manually but the difference now is that every registered voter should exchange his/her Temporary Voter's Card (TVC) with Permanent Voter's Card (PVC). Regardless of how many TVCs a person might have collected, one cannot collect more than one PVC and with the introduction of Card Readers (CRs) it becomes almost impossible to vote on behalf of another person. Issuing of PVC to those who personally demand for it on presentation of TVC has been on for a while and there has never been any instance, at least, from February 7, 2015, where an eligible voter has been denied PVC on presenting a TVC. If only 78% of 68,917,121 registered voters have so far collected their PVCs, it is reasonable to assume that apart from those who have died or too ill to think about election, the voters' register must have contained multiple registrants whose dubious character have now been blocked by PVC. They simply cannot come out to collect their PVC. If the 78% of the 68,917,121 registered voters or 53,755,355 who have collected their PVC should cast their votes on March 28, then the percentage of voters' participation in 2015 would surpass that of 2011 by 25.7%. Even if collection of voter's card is shifted to March 2016, there will still be uncollected PVC and that is why normal right-thinking people on this forum could claim that the February postponement was an excuse. Date for collection of PVCs cannot be infinite and INEC is not expected to go to individual home to issue PVC. Therefore, when INEC now extends collection of PVC by two weeks, it is a way of encouraging greater participation in the voting exercise which intelligently should not be interpreted as lack of INEC's preparation to conduct election.
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 10:15:07 -0700
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - INEC Extends Distribution Of PVCs By 2weeks
From: okeyiheduru@gmail.com
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I wish to draw your attention to the fact that INEC National Register of voters for 2011 election contained a total of 73,528,040. The actual total turnout of voters in the 2011 election that declared President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan the winner was 38,464,463 or 52.3% voters turnout. The question Okey Iheduru should help us answer in relation to the 2011 Presidential election is, what happened to the 35,063,577 or 47.7% registered voters that failed to vote in 2011? Almost half of total registered voters that did not turn out to vote could not be attributed to voters' apathy alone. Rather, the Nigerian factor or syndrome of multiple and fictitious registrations must have accounted for the absence of large number of voters at the polling stations on election day.
Now in 2015, the total number of registered voters, according to INEC is 68,917,121. Just like 2011, this registration was done manually but the difference now is that every registered voter should exchange his/her Temporary Voter's Card (TVC) with Permanent Voter's Card (PVC). Regardless of how many TVCs a person might have collected, one cannot collect more than one PVC and with the introduction of Card Readers (CRs) it becomes almost impossible to vote on behalf of another person. Issuing of PVC to those who personally demand for it on presentation of TVC has been on for a while and there has never been any instance, at least, from February 7, 2015, where an eligible voter has been denied PVC on presenting a TVC. If only 78% of 68,917,121 registered voters have so far collected their PVCs, it is reasonable to assume that apart from those who have died or too ill to think about election, the voters' register must have contained multiple registrants whose dubious character have now been blocked by PVC. They simply cannot come out to collect their PVC. If the 78% of the 68,917,121 registered voters or 53,755,355 who have collected their PVC should cast their votes on March 28, then the percentage of voters' participation in 2015 would surpass that of 2011 by 25.7%. Even if collection of voter's card is shifted to March 2016, there will still be uncollected PVC and that is why normal right-thinking people on this forum could claim that the February postponement was an excuse. Date for collection of PVCs cannot be infinite and INEC is not expected to go to individual home to issue PVC. Therefore, when INEC now extends collection of PVC by two weeks, it is a way of encouraging greater participation in the voting exercise which intelligently should not be interpreted as lack of INEC's preparation to conduct election.
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 10:15:07 -0700
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - INEC Extends Distribution Of PVCs By 2weeks
From: okeyiheduru@gmail.com
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com; okonkwonetworks@googlegroups.com
Fellow Nigerians:
This is the same INEC that claimed it was ready to hold the presidential elections back on Feb. 14th! "The electoral body said it had achieved 78 per cent distribution of the PVCs across the states" on March 8, 2015 --- more than a month after the postponement of the elections! They've just begun training the 800,000 ad hoc staff and last week commenced test-runs for the voter card-reader machines.
Not a word about INEC's gross ineffectiveness and inefficiency from the Opposition, let alone the Boko Haram-sympathizer and Axelrod-misled Obama administration!!!
And we have all kinds of very strange fellows on this forum claiming that the postponement of the elections was an "excuse" by President Goodluck Jonathan to do whatever puerile conjectures they have in mind.
Indeed, Nigeria averted another catastrophe with the presidential election postponement. And, you thought President Jonathan is "clueless"? Na-a-a-h!
INEC Extends Distribution Of PVCs By 2weeks
The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) has extended the distribution of the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) by two weeks .
INEC says the exercise will continue across the country until March 22, 2015.
The commission had on February 9, extended the PVC collection date to March 8.
In a statement by INEC's Secretary, Mrs Augusta Ogakwu, said the rescheduling of the 2015 general elections from February 14 and 28 to March 28 and April 11 made the electoral body consider the shifting of the collection date.
So far, the electoral body said it had achieved 78 per cent distribution of the PVCs across the states.
Okey Iheduru
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