Hijab is a facial covering worn by Muslim women.
Miftah, who was at the centre to register, was told by registration officials that she must not cover her ears with her hijab if she intended to register at the centre.
The woman subsequently phoned her husband, Mr. Olayiwola Miftah, who came to the centre and said that the Electoral Act did not stipulate that women in hijab must expose their ears if they wish to register.
When our correspondent got to the centre, located inside Ogo-Oluwa filling station, many of the registrants at the venue were seen engaged in arguments that it was wrong to compel the woman to expose her ears.
The husband said, “Even people in photographs on international passports are not required to uncover their ears. We won’t accept Muslim women to be de-enfranchised.
“Osun State INEC Chairman, Mr. Oloruntoyin Akeju, has clarified the issue when he said hijab wearing women should not be barred from registering.”
When our correspondent phoned a National Commissioner with INEC, Prof Lai Olurode, at the registration centre in order to clarify the issue, he told the registration officer that it was wrong to preclude women wearing hijab from registering.
But the registration officer, simply identified as Gbola, who told our correspondent and the crowd that he was not answerable to Olurode but to his superiors in Osogbo, maintained that the directive given to registration officials during training was that they should not register women whose hijab covered their ears.
When the Head, Public Relations Unit, Osun INEC, Mrs Nike Tadese, was called by our correspondent, she told Gbola that it was wrong for him to bar hijab wearing women from registering.
He subsequently registered the woman without her uncovering her ears to the delight of several cheering Muslims.
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