The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has said that the electoral body would soon display the comprehensive register of voters for the 2023 elections in all the 774 local government areas in the country.
This is just as he said that the list displayed by the commission in its LGA offices from August 15 to 21 was not the entire Register of Voters but the list of fresh registrants as of the 4th and last quarter of the Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise.
According to a release by the electoral commission, the INEC boss spoke at the ongoing Stakeholders’ Validation Meeting for the 2022 Revised Framework and Regulations for Voting by Internally Displaced Persons, taking place in Abuja.
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Some Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) at a media briefing on September 5 had accused INEC of failure to display the voters’ register as stated in Sec 19(1) of the Electoral Act 2022.
Reacting, Yakubu said: “We wish to assure Nigerians that INEC will display the comprehensive register in all the 8809 Wards and 774 LGAs nationwide as envisaged in Sec 19(1) of the Electoral Act 2022.
“This will integrate fresh voters under the last CVR exercise to the existing register of over 84 million voters. The date will be announced as soon as the Commission completes the ongoing Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) to weed out all double/multiple registrants.”
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