On claims by Melaye that some of the signatures submitted to INEC were forged and that
names of dead registered voters were also included, Oyekanmi said that the process of verification would clear all that.
Not exact matches
The Supreme Court demanded the list following a return to court by plaintiffs Abu Ramadan and Evans Nimako, to seek clarity on the same court's May 5 ruling, in which it ordered the EC to delete from the
register of voters,
names of the
dead, minors and those, who were
registered onto the poll roll through their NHIS cards.
«So, those asking us to go compile a new
register to remove the
names of the
dead, they are wasting everybody's time.
By urging tribunals to strike down the use
of the card reader, the implication is a return to our prior election system, going back to the 2003 and 2007 era where Mike Tyson,
dead people and ghost
names on the voter
register produced huge votes recorded on election day to declare people winners
of election.
«Those who are
dead, even if their
names remain in the
register, what makes the
register credible is that in this country, because
of the system in place, no one can vote in the
name of the
dead.»