ACN Lagos West Senatorial candidate cries out over exclusion of name from voter register

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate for the Lagos West Senatorial District, Senator Ganiyu Solomon has cried out over the exclusion of his name on the voter register ahead of the rescheduled National Assembly elections slated for April 9.
 
Solomon told journalists that he had registered at one of the wards in Mushin but on arriving on Saturday morning for the suspended National Assembly elections, he was told by the officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that his name was not on the list.
 
Expressing his total disappointment and disbelief, Ganiyu wondered how the INEC could have brought a register of just 153 voters when over 500 voters registered at his ward leaving over 300 voters with a possibility of being disenfranchised. 
 
Explaining his ordeal before the suspension of the elections, he said “I am a candidate and my name in the place where I have registered since I turned 18 years now suddenly my name was not there. In a list of about 500 plus voters registered and they came with 153 names as registered voters. So I don’t know what he is going to do between now and Friday to effect those anomalies. He has just given one reason but it goes beyond the one reason.”
 
“We are disappointment in various areas. We are disappointed after what we have been told about adequate preparation we still ended up at where we are. What came up on Saturday is nothing but lack of adequate preparation. Can you imagine in several places, materials officials did not report until after 12 noon when voting was supposed to have started even after the elections were suspended, they are still calling us that they are still expecting material.
 
“As at 1.00pm that day, materials were not there. is not issues of some of the materials not available there were not enough vehicles to convey INEC officials to polling units and even the register they came up with we have list of polling units were the register that has just about 20 percent of the names of registered voters so when he Jega said it was because the result papers are not available, it goes beyond that, so he said he would tell Nigerians the truth, no, he has not told us the entire truth”
 
He faulted the commission’s preparedness for the elections, lamenting that officials did not report to their designated units due to shortage of vehicles to convey them early to their station.