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INEC Detects Multiple Registrants In Continuous Voter Registration
The irregularities were discovered during the cleaning up of the voters register
The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has detected many double, multiple and ineligible registration in the Continuous Voter Registration, CVR, held between January 1 and July 31.
Festus Okoye, INEC national commissioner and chairman, the Information and Voter Education Committee, made the declaration in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja.
He stated that the irregularities were discovered during the cleaning up of the voters register using the Automated Biometric Identification System, ABIS.
“The ABIS for the period January 15 to July 31, 2022, is almost completed. Several double, multiple and ineligible registrants have also been detected and invalidated.
“Thereafter, valid registrants will be added to the existing national register of voters before publishing same nationwide for scrutiny, claims, and objections as required by the Electoral Act 2022.
“Similarly, Permanent Voters’ Cards for all valid registrants will be available for collection by the end of October and early November as promised,” he stated.
INEC had earlier declared that out of the 2,523,458 registration done between June 28, 2021 and January 14, 2022, records of 1,126,359 registrants were found to be invalid and consequently were delisted.
“These include entries that failed to meet the Commission’s business rules. The Commission takes this responsibility seriously because a credible register is at the heart of electoral integrity.
“As soon as the process is concluded, the commission will provide the public with full information as usual.