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Executive Director, Yiaga Africa, has criticised decision by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to cancel two million voters registered over alleged infractions while also asking that the commission should consider further extension of deadlines for Permanent Voters Card, PVC, collection to ensure that most Nigerians are not disenfranchised.
According to Yiaga Africa, INEC shouldn’t have invalidated over two million records of potential PVC applicants in the country without publishing their full lists and giving them reasons why their records were invalidated.
The organization further said that it has concluded plans to deploy no less than 3, 836 observers across the country to monitor the voting process.
The observer group has also disclosed that it intends to deploy an advanced election day observation methodology known as Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT) to fact check INEC’s results after the elections.
Itodo gave this information on Thursday, in Abuja, at a media round table, where he noted that the PVT is an election day observation methodology that leverages statistics and technology for the observation of the process of voting, counting and tallying of results.
Yiaga Africa which mark its 16 years of existence as a frontline civil society organisation in Nigeria, on February, 2023, said it has a mandate to protect the integrity of elections conducted in Nigeria, especially with the provision of timely information and education to electorates and the umpire regarding electoral activities in the country.