by The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC says the commission is working towards publishing a comprehensive list of registered voters in the country.
INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, stated this on Tuesday at a stakeholders’ validation meeting on the 2022 revised framework and regulations for voting by internally displaced persons (IDPs), held in Abuja.
The commission had, in August, published a “preliminary” register of voters in its LGA offices.
Prof Yakubu refutes the claims that the commission was not willing to display the comprehensive voters’ register as provided by section 19(1) of the Electoral Act, 2022.
“This claim is incorrect. What the commission displayed for claims and objections in our local government area offices nationwide for a period of one week — from August 15 to August 21 — was not the entire register of voters”.
“It was the list of fresh registrants at the end of the fourth and last quarter of the continuous voter registration exercise, covering the period from April 11 to July 31.This had been the practice for several years”.
“We wish to assure Nigerians that the commission will display the comprehensive register in all the 8,809 wards and 774 local government areas/area councils nationwide as contained in section 19(1) of the Electoral Act, 2022″, he said
Prof. Yakubu explained that the list would include the fresh voters who registered under the last CVR to the existing register of over 84 million voters.
The INEC chairman said the date would be announced as soon as the commission completes the ongoing automated biometric identification system (ABIS) to weed out all multiple as well as ineligible registrants.
Meanwhile, by the timetable of activities for the 2023 general election published by the commission, the publication of the official register of voters is to take place on January 12, 2023.
Source: radionigeria
