Nigeria: Voters Registration Threat to April Elections - ACN

24 January 2011

Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has expressed concern over the hitches being experienced in the on-going voter registration exercise, describing the hiccups as the single greatest obstacle to free, fair and credible polls in April.

In a statement issued in Ilorin, Kwara State, yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party listed such problems as including registration of voters without their fingerprints being captured, disappearance of Direct Data Capturing (DDC) machines which can be used for illegal registration and alleged over-supply of DDC machines to the areas that are known to be strongholds of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)..

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