With just three days to the end of the ongoing voter registration, a candidate for the Lagos State House of Assembly under the platform of the Democratic Front for Peoples Federation, Mr. Solomon Olorunfemi, has said that there was the urgent need to relocate the Direct Data Capture machines.
Olorunfemi, who spoke with our correspondent in Lagos on Wednesday, said this was necessary in order to attend to the thousands of eligible voters who were yet to be registered in densely populated areas of the Lagos metropolis.
The DFPF candidate noted that so many residents in his constituency in Alimosho 1 were yet to register because of the shortage of the DDC machines in the area.
He lamented that only eight DDC machines were deployed in wards F and G in Alimosho Local Government Area which harbours no fewer than 600,000 eligible voters.
He, however, drew the attention of the Independent National Electoral Commission to a street like Adekunle Fajuyi in Ikeja GRA where, according to him, operators of seven DDC machines were always sitting idle.
“Passing through Adekunle Fajuyi Street along the GRA at Ikeja, I saw about seven DDC machines idle, whereas in areas like ours, there is scarcity of the machines. INEC should immediately relocate such machines to areas where they are mostly needed now,” he said.
Olorunfemi, therefore, urged INEC to relocate such machines which are no longer needed in some areas to where their services were needed to ensure that more people are registered before the close of the exercise.
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