THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has dismissed as fake news reports that it has 21 voters registration centres in Niger Republic.
A caller, who said he was having challenges registering as .a voter in Mushin, Lagos, told Wazobia 95.1FM on Wednesday night the. iNEC had 21 registration centres in Niger Republic.
Dismissing the . allegation as fake news, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, Chief press secretary to the INEC National Chairman,. Professor Mahmood Yakubu, said it was time people are punished for fake news.
His words: “The Commission has 176, 846 polling units across the country and none outside Nigeria. I think it is high time we promulgated a law in this country to hold anybody spreading fake news accountable. Freedom of speech should not be a license for reckless statements.”
(Vanguard)
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