 The House of Representatives has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEG, to develop a mechanism that will ensure that dead and fictitious registered voters are eliminated. The motion was adopted after passing through a heated debate by members on Thursday at plenary. Honorable Leke Abujide made this call during plenary in a motion of urgent public importance noting that the last general election, fictitious names and names of people who are long dead were displayed on the voter's register while citing an example of his deceased father who passed on long ago and still has his name displayed on the voter's register. Know that in the last general election, it was glaring and crystal clear that people that were long dead had their names displayed on the voter's register. Even my own deceased father, who passed on long ago, still has his name displayed on the voter's register. Father knows that apart from dead voters, there are millions of fictitious voters who do not exist anywhere in this planet's earth, but have their names on any registered voters. It is believed that this came to being as a result of double or multiple registration by Nigerians, who had all half-intentioned of reading the elections, but the advent of by-mother voters accreditation system bevers, these faceless individuals can no longer vote. And for us to bring this matter as a matter of urgent public importance to delist in Nigeria, who have unveiled himself to register, it's unconstitutional, and it's not meritorious. Why I say it's not meritorious, Mr Speaker, because it's going to injure our cities, and it's going to put on the right of our cities to vote and be voted for. That you travel from here, from Nigeria to abroad, and you can convey yourself on the time the election is going on, and you want such a person to be delisted. Mr Speaker, I think such opinion and such assertion is not meritorious. However, not everyone bought into the proposal as Honourable Nicholas Osai countered the motion stating that it does not merit being urgent, as it remains a fundamental right for everyone to register for an election, irrespective of whether they voted or not, due to circumstances beyond them. I think that wake-up call on INAG is a germane reason for him to call INAG to look into these issues. INAG should develop more sophisticated software that can remove these names. Because elections can be challenged in court because of these things. Remember, Kwege is about to go into elections in Edo and other states. Kwege, Bayelsa, and some states. Nothing bad to say enhance the system. Who is very good? I think anything that will improve on the electoral process, we should go for that. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.