Former Special Adviser on Education to the Cross River State Governor, Castro Ezama, has called on residents of the state to rise to the challenge of mobilising eligible voters for the ongoing continuous voters registration exercise.
In a statement on his Facebook page, Ezama said one of the key indices in political calculations at the national level is voting strength, warning that Cross River currently lags behind other South-South states in the number of registered voters.
According to figures he shared, Rivers State has 3,537,190 registered voters, Delta 3,221,697, Edo 2,501,081, Akwa Ibom 2,357,418, Cross River 1,766,466 and Bayelsa 1,056,862. He argued that Cross River should “comfortably boast of 3 million eligible voters” if mobilisation efforts are intensified.
He urged residents to put aside political differences and work collectively to increase the state’s voting strength. He also called on local governments, political parties, civil society groups, and the Ministry of Information to play active roles in the exercise, including deploying public address systems to wards and polling units and translating voter-registration jingles into local languages such as Efik, Ejagham, Bekwara and Mbembe.
“Just as we brag about winning our polling units, let us also brag about the number of eligible voters we can muster,” Ezama wrote, setting a target of three million registered voters for Cross River State.
He stressed that “politics is a game of numbers” and expressed confidence that the target is achievable if all stakeholders work together.
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