The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it has uncovered several ineligible records in their Continuous Voter Registration (CVR).
INEC’s Head of Information and Voter Education Committee,
Festus Okoye disclosed this in a statement on Monday.
According to Okoye, these oddities were discovered during the cleaning up of the voters’ register done with the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS).
“Several double, multiple, and ineligible registrants have also been detected and 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.”
Meanwhile, the CVR took place nationwide in January 2022 and ended on July 31.
Okoye promised to give the public full information at the appropriate time.
He also noted that valid registrants would be added to the existing national register before the names will be published for inspection, claims, and objections.
Additionally, Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) would be available for collection by the end of October/early November.
It could be recalled that INEC confirmed that 1,126,359 of 2,523,458 registrations done between June 28, 2021, and January 14, 2022, were found invalid and removed.
