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With less than one year to the conduct of governorship election in Anambra state, a civil society organization, International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety), tasks the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a comprehensive review of voters register.(Iwu left defenselessly explaining to former Vice President Atiku Abubarkar his commission's shoddy conduct of the 2003 poll; down right is Emeka Umeh, chairman, board of directors of Intersociety)

Intersociety, in a letter to INEC, regrets that, less than one year to the guber poll, Anambra’s prospective voters are still kept in the dark, adding that specific number of eligible voters in the state is not ascertained. Chairman of the board of the organization, Emeka Umeagbalasi, signed the letter.

The organization says details of how the election would be conducted have become necessary because eligible voters emerged after the general elections of 2007. It adds that while others attained the age of 18 in 2008 and 2009 respectively, some others will mature in January 2010.

The organization, further, contended that if fresh registration is not conducted before the 2010 gubernatorial election in Anambra state, some eligible voters would be disenfranchised.

“It is an incontrovertible fact that some eligible voters emerged in late 2007 after they clocked age 18, some emerged in 2008 after they mature as eligible voters, and some would mature in 2009, and there are those who will clock 18 years in early January 2010. Disenfranchising these eligible voters will amount to electoral crimes against human”, Intersociety maintains.

Scripted by: Okechukwu Keshi Ukegbu.