The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has again made another announcement which revealed that it has discovered 2.7 million cases of some double registration which had been carried out during the recently concluded Continuous Voter Registration.
The commission had also revealed that all the affected persons have been deleted from the voter register.
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This had been disclosed by the INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, at an event tagged ‘National Endowment for Democracy’ held in Washington DC, United States.
Yakubu 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.
“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.”
In another related report, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the final list of candidates that will be squaring up to contest the governorship and houses of assembly election in 28 states of the federation in the 2023 elections.
A statement signed yesterday by the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, had in it the 18 political parties that fielded 837 candidates and their running mates for the 28 governorship elections.
Also, the statement indicated that 10,231 candidates would vie for 993 seats in the state assembly elections.
The list also included the names of the running mates to the governorship candidates from the 18 political parties billed to participate in the poll.
