Politics

2023 Polls: Any Way Around For Essential Workers?

By Web News 1184

By Olaitan Oye-Adeitan

In about a month from now, eligible voters in Nigeria will head to the polls to elect candidates of their choice in the 2023 general elections but then, not all eligible voters find it easy to exercise their franchise due to the essential nature of their jobs.

Journalists, medical practitioners and security personnel fall into this category.

Mr Temidayo Adu, Mrs Modupe Olatunbosun and Mrs Lilian Ibomor are media professionals who should be on the field covering and reporting elections.

Mr Temidayo Adu

As a medical doctor, Fisayo Oluwatosin is expected to be in the hospital attending to patients even on election day.

Enforcing law and order at polling units and centres is critical to the overall success of the electoral process.

However, how possible will it be for security agents to vote on such a very important day?

Oyo State NSCDC Commandant, Mr Micheal Adaralewa

What then is the position of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC? 

Mrs Rosemary Alaba-Adeniyi is the Head of the Voter Education Department, INEC, Oyo State.

As it is, the Nigerian Electoral process is still a work in progress and it is hoped that policymakers will take into cognizance the current gap and do the needful.

Politics

Only 16 Political Parties in Oyo State – INEC

By Web News 893

Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says only sixteen political parties are recognised in Oyo state.

INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Oyo state, Mr Mutiu Agboke stated this at a stakeholders meeting with members of Inter Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security and Political Parties held in Oyo state.

Mr Agboke noted that with the development, there was a vacuum in IPAC as most of its principal officers in Oyo state fell within the deregistered parties and were no longer known to law.

Mr Agboke stressed the readiness of INEC to collaborate with the parties to ensure hitch-free political process.

INEC had on November deregistered 74 political parties out of 92.

Adedayo Adelowo