Osun Guber Poll: INEC pledges voting access for PWDs

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, successful Osun State has reiterated its committedness to inclusive electoral participation, peculiarly for Persons With Disabilities, PWDs, up of the 2026 governorship predetermination scheduled for 15 August.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr Mutiu Agboke, made this known connected Tuesday during a sensitisation and consciousness programme organised by the INEC headquarters, Abuja, held successful Osogbo, which focused connected the devolution of the Continuous Voter Registration, CVR, workout to Registration Areas crossed the state.

Agboke described the engagement arsenic a captious measurement towards ensuring that nary eligible elector is excluded from the antiauthoritarian process, noting that the disablement assemblage remains an integral portion of Nigeria’s democracy.

He stated, “Democracy thrives erstwhile each citizen, careless of carnal condition, has adjacent accidental to enactment successful choosing leaders and shaping governance.”

The REC explained that the decentralisation of the CVR workout from section authorities offices to ward level was designed to bring registration person to the people, peculiarly those who whitethorn look mobility challenges.

According to him, “the ...