Attahiru Jega, revealed that 16 million names of voters were cleaned
out from the voters' register following irregularities.
Speaking at a sensitisation workshop with a theme: "Nigeria 2015
Elections and Beyond: Stakeholders Conference on the Roles of the
State and Non-State Actors in Mitigating Violence in Elections," the
INEC boss said over four million names were found to be double
registrants while close to 12 million were under-age registrants and
those with incomplete record.
He expressed regret that before the 2011 general elections, Nigeria
never had a credible voters register with which credible polls could
be conducted. He noted that a good register of voters is the key
infrastructure on which the "electoral edifice has to rest."
Jega said the commission had so far printed 54,341,610 Permanent
Voters' Cards (PVCs), 38,774,391 (71.35 percent) of which had been
distributed, adding that a total of 15,567,219 cards were yet to be
collected by their owners.
--infonaija
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