A community leader in Warri North Local GOvernment on Monday appealed to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to create more wards in his community for the 2019 general election.

Chief Victor Nanna of Koko Kingdom made the appeal when the INEC officials paid him a courtesy visit.

He said that he was not usually happy with the low  performance by his people  during past elections.

He said that it was usually caused by  insufficient wards for them to vote for candidates of their choices.

He,  therefore,  appealed to  INEC to  create more wards to ensure conflict free process during the 2019 general elections.

Nanna  said that a situation where  all the  electorate in the community would  cluster in one ward to register was not good.

He said that it would benefit the community if everybody could be captured and be registered for the election where they lived.

Nanna assured the INEC  officials  that the 2019 general election was going to be peaceful in the community and in  the state.

Earlier, the Administrative Secretary of INEC in the state , Mrs Rose Orianran-Anthony  thanked the community head for allocating  land  to the commission  to build its prototype office.

She said that the commission needed the land because its present office in the community was a temporary one and  not conducive for  INEC workers.

She said that the commission needed an office where the security of the staff during elections would be guaranteed.

She said that this was paramount to the commission.

She also used the occasion  to appeal to the community head to help sensitise the electorate to come and  collect their permanent voter cards (PVC)s).

She said that 4, 771 PVCs were ready for collection from  those that registered last year..

11, 2018 @ 19:15 GMT |