Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said it is working on a template that will enable eligible voters walk into any of its offices and register.
INEC Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Mr Oluwole Osase-Uzzi, made the disclosure in Abuja yesterday, at an Election Results Analysis Training for Political Correspondents organised by Election Monitor (EM) an NGO.
He said the template was still going through planning process.
He added that if the process is finalised, it would enable Nigerians who just attained the age of 18 to walk into any INEC offices and register without necessarily waiting for the time Continuous Voter Registration, CVR, is conducted.
Osase-Uzzi said the template would also take care of eligible voters living far from INEC office.
He, however, explained that the commission would still conduct CVR periodically to capture the details of eligible voters.
Meanwhile, National Coordinator, Election Monitor, Mr Abiodun Ajijola, has called on media organisations to lay greater emphasis on analysis of election results.
In his presentation at the training, Ajijola argued that analysing election results would give valuable insight into the veracity of the results by observing and assessing trends, deviations and inconsistencies.
He said that media coverage of elections in Nigeria would offer tremendous service to the electorate if it lays greater emphasis on analytical election coverage.
“It will help to improve public knowledge about elections, as well help to reduce or avoid election violence that usually lead to loss of lives and properties.
“If proper election analysis was done and disseminated across all forms of media, some of the people trying to create unrest and violence during election period will have failed.
“They would have failed because their message will have been drowned out by empirical analysis which may have actually saved some lives,” he said.
The coordinator said that since 1999, majority of the elections conducted had resulted in dissatisfied parties (usually those who lost) taken their case to the court for final determination.
He said: “most media houses have also weighed in their opinions of the credibility of elections in Nigeria, usually leveraging on external analysts.
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