The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announced on Tuesday that it has detected 2.7 million instances of double registration during the recently completed Continuous Voter Registration period.
The impacted individuals have been removed from the voter rolls, according to the commission.
This was revealed by INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu at the ‘National Endowment for Democracy’ event in Washington DC, United States.
Yakubu also expressed concern about the country’s security difficulties, 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.”
