Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) Barr Julius Abure said he is not participating in the party's primaries for the governorship election in Edo State.
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Published 24 February 2021
VOTERS’ rising disinterest in Nigeria’s electoral system was raised afresh by the Independent National Electoral Commission recently with the disclosure that voter turnout hovered between 30 and 35 per cent in the last two electoral cycles, including off-season elections. Nigerians should begin to embrace the opportunity better yet, the responsibility to make themselves heard.
The commission’s Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, at INEC’s first consultative meeting with Civil Society Organisations in 2021, said some elections recorded higher percentages of voter turnouts, while it was lower in some other elections. According to Yakubu, a few elections had higher voter participation while some recent by-elections recorded lower, such as the 8.3 per cent voter turnout in an urban constituency of over 1.2 million registered voters located in the nation’s most densely populated city.
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