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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it has delisted 1,126,359 invalid registrants from the 2,523.458 new registration in the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise which was concluded on July 31, 2022, the National Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has said.
Earlier, INEC announced that of the 2,523,458 registrations was done between June 28, 2021 and January 14, 2022 and ended in July 31.
Festus Okoye, INEC Head of Information and Voter Education Committee issued a statement on Monday.
Okoye said the irregularities were discovered during the cleaning up of the voters register, using the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS).
“Several double, multiple and ineligible registrants have been detected and consequently invalidated.
“These include entries that failed to meet the Commission’s business rules.”
Okoye said INEC takes the matter seriously “because a credible register is at the heart of electoral integrity”.
The commissioner added that the commission will provide the public with full information in due course.
Valid registrants will be added to the existing national register, before the names will be published for scrutiny, claims and objections.
Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) will be available for collection by the end of October/early November.