Voter Registration: INEC Registers 2.3m In 2017

BY VICTOR BUORO, ABUJA – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said it registered 2.3 million persons in its Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise in the first and second quarter of 2017.

Chairman of the Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced this on Thursday when he paid a courtesy visit to the office of Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth and Advancement (YIAGA) in Abuja.

Yakubu said: “We have registered 1.8 million Nigerians in the first quarter of the CVR exercise and registered about half a million in the second quarter of the CVR.”

“The Commission is making arrangement for people with disability with development of software on the new Direct Data Capturing Machine that would capture them during the exercise.”
He said the Commission’s strategic and electoral project plans have been validated towards a successful election in 2019.

While commending YIAGA for its effort towards promoting transparency and citizens’ participation through election observation and a better electoral system in Nigeria, Yakubu reaffirmed INEC’s commitment in working with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) for improved electoral system.

After a brief display on how the #WatchingTheVote team of YIAGA observed the just concluded CVR exercise in Anambra State and how it plans to conduct pre-election and Election Observation of the upcoming November gubernatorial elections using statistics and information Technology, the INEC boss said, “I know YIAGA is doing great but with this display, I must say I am overwhelmed and very happy.”