The Senate on Tuesday summoned the Chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission, Attahiru Jega, to appear before today.
Jega is expected to brief senators on INEC’s
readiness for the forthcoming March 28 and April 11 elections.
The senate, which resumed plenary on Tuesday after a 33-day
break, took the decision following a motion by its Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba.
Ndoma-Egba, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, while presenting the motion
asked Jega to come with a card reader for demonstration before the lawmakers.
The Minority Leader, George Akume, who contributed to the motion,
suggested that the service chiefs should also be invited since they
were blamed by INEC for the postponement of the polls hitherto scheduled for February
14 and 28.
But Senate President David Mark ruled that summoning the
service chiefs was not necessary at the moment.
The Senators, through voice vote, approved the invitation of
Jega, while agreeing that the invitation of the service chiefs would be
determined by Jega’s submission on Wednesday.
INEC has however said that 75.94 per cent or 52,275,367 of the
68,833,476 registered voters in the country have collected their Permanent
Voter Cards.
As of February 4 when Jega briefed the Council of State meeting in
Abuja, 45, 098, 878 voters had collected their PVCs.
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