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INEC hit 1million record of registrants in ongoing exercise

By David Onimisi Lawani
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has noted that four weeks after the commission commenced the online pre-registration of voters on 28th June 2021, over one million Nigerians have registered as of Monday 26th July 2021, the number of new registrants has risen to 1,006,661.

Making this announcement, Festus Okoye, National Commissioner & Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee in a statement signed said the detailed distribution of the registrants by age, State/FCT, gender, occupation, and disability for Week Four of the exercise has been uploaded to the Commission’s website and social media platforms.

He said the distribution by age still shows that 740,063 (or 73.5%) are young Nigerians between the ages of 18 and 34.

According to him: ” As earlier announced by the Commission, physical or in-person registration begins today, Monday 26th July 2021 at our 811 State and Local Government Area offices nationwide. The exact locations of the designated centers have already been uploaded to our website and social media platforms. For further details, citizens are encouraged to contact our State offices through the dedicated telephone numbers provided in the uploaded publication.

” Nigerians who pre-registered online can now complete their registration at those centers based on scheduled appointments. In addition, other Nigerians who prefer to register physically/in person can now do so at those centers.

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The commission said further that both online pre-registration and physical/in-person registration will continue simultaneously until the suspension of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise on 30th June 2022 to enable the Commission to clean up the data and compile the voters’ register for the 2023 General Election.

” The right to vote begins with the registration of voters. Thus, as we enter the next phase of the CVR exercise, we once again appeal to all citizens who wish to register to approach any of the Commission’s State or Local Government Area offices nationwide to do so.

” Once again, we wish to remind citizens that the ongoing registration does not include those already registered as voters. The current exercise is only open to Nigerians who are 18 years and above who have not registered before. It is an offense under the Electoral Act for any citizen to register more than once”, the statement read.

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