The 2023 Governorship Candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) in Abia State, Onyekwere Akym Uche, has applauded the Independent National Electoral Commission, on its decision to extend the ongoing voters’ registration and Revalidation exercise ahead of the general election in 2023.
This comes on the heels of the call by socio-political groups, members of the national assembly, and the recent court order restraining the nation’s electoral commission from ending the voter’s registration on June 30th.
AFRIPOST recalls that the Independent National Electoral Commission had earlier fixed June 30, 2022, as the deadline for the ongoing voters’ registration exercise across the nation.
However, Mr. Onyekwere Akym Uche, while reacting in a statement issued to journalists on Friday, maintained that the extension would halt voter apathy that may be experienced during the upcoming general election in 2023 in Abia and the entire country.
He tasked the INEC to ensure adequate logistics to enable those who are yet to register or revalidate, as it’s their civil right and obligation to do so, as stipulated in the Constitution of the land, urging the electoral umpire to resist any pressure from any quarter to manipulate the ongoing process in favour of any particular candidate or senatorial zone in order not to subvert the collective will of the people.
While harping on logistics, Mr Akym Uche also urged the INEC to ensure the deployment of additional machines and Adhoc staff to ensure eligible citizens are captured to ensure their exercise their franchise and enthrone the needed leadership at all levels of Abia state.
The gubernatorial standard-bearer reiterated that he entered the race to serve and deliver Abia from the siege og godfatherism to restore Abia’s education, and as well as, ensure security and Infrastructural development which drives other sectors of good governance.
According to the Isiukwato-born politician, “let me use the medium to restate that Permanent Voters Cards (PVC) remained the only weapon vested on the citizenry to effect leadership change, and elect people with needed competence, capacity, and expertise to bring the genuine democratic dividends to the doorsteps of the Abia people
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