Detainees to vote in 2019 decisions – INEC

 The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said it is making arrangements with the Nigeria Prisons Service to guarantee detainees can vote in the anticipated 2019 general races.

INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, said this on Tuesday in Abuja at an exchange session labeled Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room Dialog.

The exchange session required more than 70 common society associations in Nigeria.

This improvement is coming three years after a Federal High Court in Benin, Edo State, decided that detainees in Nigeria have the privilege to vote in all decisions directed in the nation.

Mr. Yakubu said the commission was thinking about making surveying units in Nigerian jails to give a few classifications of detainees the chance to vote.

He clarified that exclusive "certain classifications of detainees" would be given such an open door relying upon the idea of the wrongdoings submitted.

"We have officially drawn in the Comptroller-General of Prisons and we have measurements on the quantity of detainees across the nation and the quantity of prisoners enlisted."

"We are taking a gander at the likelihood of making surveying units in the jails and to empower a few classifications of detainees to vote.

"Ghana does it however there are a few classifications of detainees who by the idea of wrongdoings conferred lose the privilege to vote. Whatever we can do to open up the procedure to guarantee that however much as could be expected Nigerians are given the chance to vote, will be finished."

Talking on the pending Anambra governorship decision, he likewise said the commission would do everything to guarantee that the race isn't uncertain or fixed.

Mr. Yakubu raised worries on the wrong substitutions of names of governorship applicants by two political gatherings in front of the governorship decision however declined to uncover the names of these gatherings.

He however cautioned that if the demonstration was tested in court, the entire race could be voided therefore and the nation will be made to tolerate the budgetary heap of leading another decision.

He said the abnormal state of rebelliousness to the Electoral Act by the political gatherings was undermining the discretionary framework.

Lenient Nwankwo, the Executive Director, Policy and Legal Advocacy Center, and convener of Situation Room, said the occasion was sorted out to know the commission's arrangements for the prospective Anambra State governorship survey and additionally different races.