{"id":97273,"date":"2022-07-24T15:57:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T14:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=97273"},"modified":"2022-07-24T16:00:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T15:00:02","slug":"about-7m-voters-so-far-registered-in-lagos-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/about-7m-voters-so-far-registered-in-lagos-inec\/","title":{"rendered":"About 7m voters so far registered in Lagos -INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lagos, July 24, 2022 (NAN) The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos State,\u00a0 says statistics show that the state currently<\/div>\n
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has about seven million registered voters.The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC)\u00a0 in Lagos state, Mr Olusegun Agbaje disclosed this\u00a0 in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday.<\/p>\n

According to him, if the number of\u00a0 new registrants so far in the ongoing\u00a0 Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) is added to those in the register of voters before in the state, the number will be about seven million.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Lagos state as at Monday (July 18), those who registered online are 640, 560 but many of them have not completed registration. Those who have completed the\u00a0 registration exercise are 451, 156.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe total number of\u00a0 registered voters in Lagos state before the commencement of the ongoing CVR is 6,570,291,\u00a0 and if we add the new registrants, we have about seven million registered voters,\u201d Agbaje said.<\/p>\n

He, however, said the ongoing CVR had not ended and the commission was still capturing more people before deadline on July 31.<\/p>\n

The INEC boss said there would not be any extension of the CVR because the commission had lots\u00a0 of work to do\u00a0 on the voters register before
\nprinting of the\u00a0 Permanent Voter\u2019s Cards (PVCs).<\/p>\n

He assured that, though the commission could not capture everybody, those who presented themselves for registration would not be denied.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryday, there is no one that will come here that will go out without being attended to unless we cannot finish before 7.00 p.m., because by that time, all over the country, the system will shut down to avoid misuse of the machines at night.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody cannot be captured but those who come to us will be registered,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said\u00a0 the commission had put six extra days to the registration which were Saturdays and Sundays of the last three weeks of the exercise from 9.00 a.m to 5.00 p.m. before the deadline.<\/p>\n

Agbaje added: \u201cWhoever comes out on these weekends, especially those who complained that their work do not allow them, will be registered.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said\u00a0 the commission had to stop the CVR on July 31,\u00a0 so as to clean up the voter register which he described as vital in the credibility of elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to take the data to our workshop, analyse what we have, then to another workshop for printing of cards, transporting them to all the
\nstates before we ask people to come and collect.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, the processes are quite long and the time is not there, we have to stop the CVR,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Urging people to avoid double registration, Agbaje said that those engaged in double or multiple registration would not get PVCs.<\/p>\n

According to him, those who engage in multiple registration affect chances of others, saying many who need to seek replacement of lost or defaced PVCs or transfer of their registration to a nearest polling units are registering newly..<\/p>\n

He said\u00a0 INEC would carry out other activities such as the display of voter register for claims and objections, robust cleaning of the register to remove all double or multiple registrants, printing of cards, distribution to states for onward collection by the people.<\/p>\n

According to him, all the PVCs for the new registrants from January to July 31 will be ready by October, and from\u00a0 October to\u00a0 December, INEC
\nwill start distribution.<\/p>\n

He said that out of about 34,000 new PVCs printed for people that registered from\u00a0 June to\u00a0 December 2021 in Lagos, only about 10,000 had been collected across the 20 local government areas of\u00a0 the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbout 10,000 have collected their PVCs out of 34,000 new ones. As people are collecting the new ones,\u00a0 they are also collecting the old
\nones,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He urged the people to visit INEC offices in each of the 20 LGAs\u00a0 for collection of their PVCs before it would be too late.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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