INEC warns against voter apathy ahead of Osun governorship poll

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has identified elector apathy arsenic 1 of the large challenges confronting electoral information successful Nigeria and has intensified efforts to code the contented up of the 2026 Osun State governorship election.

The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner for Osun State, Mrs Oluwatoyin Babalola, stated this on Monday during a Joint Voter Education and Publicity, VEP, and Gender and Inclusivity, G&I, Implementation Meeting with Electoral Officers and Assistant Electoral Officers successful Osogbo.

Babalola, who said the gathering formed portion of the Commission’s strategical preparations for the governorship predetermination scheduled for August 15, 2026, stressed that palmy elections necessitate extended elector engagement and continuous nationalist sensitisation.

She noted that though electoral medication had witnessed improvements implicit the years, galore eligible citizens inactive failed to enactment actively successful elections owed to misinformation, inadequate cognition of electoral processes, distrus...