As the Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise commences, a coalition of accredited observers have raised the alarm over inadequacy of registration centres, machines, as well as slow pace of registering prospective voters in Abia State.
The Coalition of INEC Accredited Observer Groups for the 2017 CVR expressed their worries on the anomalies being encountered in the voter registration exercise in an interaction with newsmen in Umuahia while presenting their interim report on the exercise which began on April 27.
In the report read by the team secretary, Victor Kalu, the coalition said that a lot of anomalies noticed in the exercise could lead to the disenfranchisement of large number of eligible voters in Abia State in the forthcoming 2019 General Elections unless INEC rectifies the situation.
Kalu said that the concentration of the registration centre only in the local government headquarters and with only one machine in operation was causing frustration and denying so many eligible voters the opportunity to register and get their voters cards.