Taraba REC seeks security agencies’ backing ahead of 2027 elections

The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, successful Taraba State, Dr. Sa’ad Umar Idris, has called connected information agencies and different stakeholders to enactment the Commission’s ongoing Continuous Voter Registration, CVR, workout done nationalist sensitization and elector acquisition campaigns.

Dr. Idris made the entreaty during a two-day advocacy and courtesy sojourn to information agencies, paramilitary formations and cardinal institutions crossed the authorities arsenic portion of efforts to fortify collaboration up of the 2027 wide elections.

According to the REC, the visits besides served to formally notify stakeholders of the commencement of Phase III of the ongoing CVR exercise, which began connected May 11 and is scheduled to extremity connected July 10, 2026.

He urged the agencies to usage their assorted platforms to amended residents connected the value of elector registration and the postulation of Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, stressing that the process would alteration eligible citizens to enactment afloat successful aboriginal elections.

Speaking during the engagements, the REC emphasized the strategical relation of information agencies arsenic members of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee connected Election Security (ICCES), noting that they stay captious to predetermination readying and information coordination.

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