The Special Adviser to Ogun Governor on public communications, Remmy Hazzan, has lamented that the names of registered voters on INEC were full of dead people yet to be taken off the lists.
Hazzan said this shortly after casting his vote at polling unit six, ward 14 in Omu area of Odogbolu Local Government, Ogun.
He explained that INEC was building on the 1999 register, stressing that the commission should reprocess the entire voters’ registration, adding that the failure of INEC to remove names of dead people from the list contributed to reported voter apathy.
His words: “In this election and this particular unit, we have the highest number of turnout, but if you check in relation with the voters’ register, you will see that there is voters’ apathy because some people on the list are dead.
“My father is in that register and he died about eight years ago. He hasn’t been removed from the register. So, INEC should have a working plan on how to get notified when voters have become deceased so that they can take them off effectively.
“I will advocate that at the earliest convenience time, INEC should reprocess the entire voters’ registration.
“I have always had a problem with our voters’ register as a nation because it has been a build-up since the 1999 register. In that register, you have many dead people who were yet to be taken off the register. In that register, you had ghosts voters who were registered at that time biometrics were not in a condition to register.
“Building on that register using it as a measure for voter turnout, I am not comfortable with that.”
