Independent National Electoral Commission has declared that the time has come for it to conduct the most transparent and free election in Africa.
In order to inform Nigerians about the impending General Elections, Mr Festus Okoye, the National Commissioner for Information and Voter Education, announced this on Wednesday during the 2022 Calabar Carnival.
So Okoye urged commission officials to “prove Nigerians that they have the competence to do so.”
According to him, the commission chose to take part in the carnival in order to educate and motivate Nigerians to register to vote and obtain their Permanent Voter Cards.
Okoye argued that Nigerians needed to be aware of the PVCs’ potency.
If it hadn’t, he asserts, politicians wouldn’t be vying with one another for their business.
“My message to Nigerians is that only the PVCs can change their circumstances.
“Therefore, those who do not have their PVCs have no business in the electoral process.
“Our responsibility is to ensure that the PVCs are available for the people and to organise free, fair and credible elections.
“It is also to ensure that those Nigerians say should win the 2023 election won.
“The time had come for us to organise the freest and fairest election on the continent of Africa,” he said.
Okoye added that the panel had no political affiliation and was only beholden to the Nigerian people.
He claimed that in order to ensure that the 2023 elections were reliable and the greatest the nation had ever seen, the commission needed to mobilise all of the national resources.
