A Youth group under the auspices of Plateau G17 Youths for Peace and Progress Forum has appealed to the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission INEC Professor Mahmood Yakubu to extend the ongoing Voters Registration to various polling Units so as to give opportunity for People at the grassroot to be registered.

The convener and leader of the Youth Group Mr. Dachung Bagos made the call yesterday in Jos while speaking with Journalists said unless the registrations is extended to polling Units many Nigerians will not have the opportunity to registered which will amount to in justice.

“We made bold and call on the chairman of INEC on behalf of our People in the villages that let this ongoing registration be taken to the various polling Units because it won’t be fair, it will be injustice for those in far villages to travel for two hours to the Local Government Headquarters to join a long queue before they will be registered, some will even spend the whole day without being registered”.

He disclosed that in Jos South Local Government of Plateau State not less than 20,000 people have access their permanent Voters cards since 2015 out of the total of over 150,000 Voters in the Locality.

“Since Peace has now been achieved in Plateau State as result of the effort of Government, so we call on INEC to see how they can extend the ongoing voters card registration to the polling Unit as it use to be in the past, it was done in the polling Units in the past but, we don’t know why is different this time where people suffer, if INEC don’t have the manpower let them tell Nigerians to know”.

The youths group as a matter of urgency also call on the National Assembly to intervened in the suffering of the Nigerians over the voters card registration.

“As youths we will not accept the injustice on the ongoing voters registration and we had is only for three Months and a lot of people in the rural areas of Plateau State have not registered neither access their PVC, because everybody has the right to be registered and everyone has the right to vote as long as the person is 18years”. They said.

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Youths call on INEC to extend voter-registration to the grassroots level