The Independent National Electoral Commission has resumed the Continuous Voter Registration ahead of the 2023 general elections.
The commission had created fifty-six thousand, eight hundred and seventy-two additional polling units across the country and had also accredited thirty-one organisations to observe the CVR, while twenty more applications were being processed.
According to the commission, the registration, which will be carried out continuously for over a year until the third quarter of 2022, will be targeting at least twenty million new voters.
While threatening to prosecute any citizens who provided false information during the exercise, INEC had said it would be deploying five thousand, three hundred and forty-six officials to two thousand, six hundred and seventy-three registration centres
The chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, also said the security of the personnel is very paramount.
He added that there will be new registrants, requests for intra-State and inter-State transfers as well as the replacement of voters’ cards as provided by law.
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