Ondo State gov­ernor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko has stressed the need for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to extend the pe­riod of the on-going vot­ers registration exercise in the state following complaints against the execution of the exercise.
Governor Mimiko made the call in order not to disenfranchise the people after he was con­fronted with various com­plaints, made by eligible voters and protests against the execution of the exer­cise during a monitoring tour on Friday.
Mimiko had visited some registration cen­tres in the state capital, Akure, in company with government officials and the state’s INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Akin Orebiyi.
At the St. Stephen Pri­mary School Oke –Ijebu poling unit for instance, fears were raised about the lean chance of about two million eligible vot­ers in the unit to register as over 2000 people were waiting unattended to by 10.00am because of the bad state of the registra­tion machine.
The officer in charge at the poling unit said the registration exercise started by 9.00am but was only able to register 10 people in an hour.

Voters registration: Mimiko calls for deadline extension