800,000 Nigerians to be charged to court for Multiple Voters Registration

The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for Lagos State, Adekunle Ogunmola, stated during a recent lecture in Ibadan, Oyo State, that the commission would soon prosecute 800,000 Nigerians for engaging in multiple registration during the voter registration exercise for the 2011 elections. According to Ademola, the commission was already collaborating with the Legal Aid Council to prosecute the multiple registrants.

This, he insisted, was being done to serve as a deterrent to other perpetrators of electoral malpractices in the future. In his words: “If we fail to prosecute the perpetrators now, it will portend grave danger for the future elections in the country”. He added that the 800,000 multiple registrants already identified in the computer might not reflect the actual number of multiple registrations, “because of the malfunctioning of the Direct Data Capture (DDC) machines.” - Tribune