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INEC DELETES 2.7 MILLION DOUBLE REGISTRANTS, NEW PVC AVAILABLE BY NOVEMBER

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Yakubu Mahmood has revealed that 2.7 million double registrants were weeded out of the last Continuous Voters Registration exercise conducted by the commission.

Speaking on Tuesday October 11, at a National Endowment for Democracy event in Washington DC in the United States, Yakubu also said the new Permanent Voter Cards will be made available by November.

He also revealed that about 50% of the new PVCs are ready but yet to be distributed to collection centres.

The Independent National Electoral Commission has explained why over seven million eligible voters could not complete the Continuous Voter Registration.   INEC’s National Electoral Commissioner for Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye who spoke to Punch on Tuesday August 16, said most of those who could not complete the registration were Nigerians in diaspora.   Absolving the Commission of any wrong doing following claims of disenfranchising seven million registrants from voting in the forthcoming 2023 general election.

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