INEC To Publish Comprehensive List Of Registered Voters Soon — Yakubu
The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu whilst in a stakeholders’ validation meeting for the 2022 revised framework and regulations for voting by Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Abuja, said that the commission will publish a full list of all registered voters as soon as possible
Yakub said the list will integrate new voters enrolled in the recently completed Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) into the existing register of more than 84 million voters.
He dismissed claims by some civil society groups that INEC was unwilling to see the registry. At a media briefing held yesterday, the Commission accused him of failing to submit an electoral roll in accordance with Article 19(1) of the 2022 Electoral Act. This claim is false.“What the commission displayed for claims and objections in our local government area offices nationwide for a period of one week, from Aug. 15 to Aug. 21, was not the entire register of voters.“This was a list of new registrations at the end of the fourth and final quarter of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise covering the period from April 11th to July 31st".“This has been the practice for several years,” he said.
Yakubu said that the commission had displayed the register three times: from Sept. 24 to Sept. 30, 2021 (First Quarter), Dec. 24 to Dec. 30, 2021 (Second Quarter) and March 26 to – April 1 2022 (Third Quarter).
He said that a comprehensive schedule of the CVR and the display of the register was shared with stakeholders at the commission’s quarterly meeting just before the inception of the exercise in June 2021.
“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 envisaged in Section 19(1) of the Electoral Act, 2022.
“This will integrate fresh voters registered under the last CVR into the existing register of over 84 million voters.
“The date will be announced as soon the commission completes the ongoing Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) to weed out all double/multiple as well as ineligible registrants.
“We appeal to some of our friends in civil society organisations to be guided accordingly,” Yakubu said.