2023: Why We Deleted 2.7 Million Double Registration – INEC

By Oladosu Oluwagbenga 

In the most recent Continuous Voter Registration, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, discovered 2.7 million instances of double registration.

Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of INEC, clarified this during a National Endowment for Democracy event in Washington, DC, in the United States.

The impacted individuals, according to the commission, have been removed from the voter list of the commission.

The development was also verified to reporters by Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chairman’s spokesperson.

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Meanwhile, the INEC boss has also raised concerns about security challenges across the country, while assuring stakeholders that the commission will do its best.

He said, “It is a perennial issue because, at the end of the day, it is not new but the dimension of the insecurity is new in the sense that in the past, it was localised or confined to a particular part of the country – the North-East but now, it is more widespread.

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“We are keeping our eyes, particularly, on the North-West and the South-Eastern part of the country. Elections are conducted by human beings. We worry about the security of our officials, materials, and even the voters themselves. Without them, elections cannot be conducted.”

Yaqubu added that the commission “has spoken to the security agencies and they have assured us that the situation will improve before the elections. So, fingers crossed.”