INEC Reacts To Reports On Disenfranchised Pre-registered 7million Eligible Voters
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reacted to reports making the rounds that some seven million Nigerians who applied for online pre-registration as voters during the last nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) were denied the opportunity to complete their registration.
While denying the media reports, INEC, in a statement signed by Festus Okoye, national commissioner and chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, issued to newsmen in Abuja, described the claim as misleading.
Okoye noted that what was taken as eligible registrants denied registration were applicants who, during the suspended Continuous Voters Registration, “failed to either complete the online enrolment or appear physically at the designated centres to complete the process.”
Okoye gave a breakdown of 7,043,594 who were victims of incomplete online pre-registration.
“It is clear that no Nigerians was deliberately denied the opportunity to complete online pre-registration.
“We appeal to citizens to always adhere to timelines as against the endless agitation for eleventh hour extension of set deadlines,” the INEC spokesman said.
