{"id":99022,"date":"2022-09-07T08:46:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T07:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=99022"},"modified":"2022-09-07T08:46:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T07:46:47","slug":"display-of-voter-register-weve-not-breached-electoral-act-says-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/display-of-voter-register-weve-not-breached-electoral-act-says-inec\/","title":{"rendered":"Display Of Voter Register: We&#8217;ve Not Breached Electoral Act, Says INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has denied the claim by a coalition of civil society organisations that it violated some aspects of the 2022 Electoral Act by not publishing a comprehensive list of registered voters.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He, however, said the commission was working towards publishing a comprehensive list of registered voters in Nigeria, ahead of the 2023 elections.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CSOs, under the platform of Situation Room, had accused INEC of non-compliance with Section 19 (1) of the Act which spells out how voters\u2019 registration should be displayed across the country.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yakubu said the list would integrate the fresh voters registered at the just-concluded Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) to the existing register of over 84 million voters.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yakubu said INEC had not fixed a date for the activity in question and when the time comes, it would do so.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yakubu spoke in Abuja at a stakeholders\u2019 validation meeting on the 2022 Revised Framework and Regulations For Voting by Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the date for the exercise will be communicated after cleaning its data of double or multiple registrants after the just concluded Continuous Voters Registration (CVR).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said, \u201cAt a media briefing yesterday, the commission was accused of failure to display the voters\u2019 register as provided by Section 19(1) of the Electoral Act 2022. This claim is incorrect.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhat the commission displayed for claims and objections in our local government area offices nationwide for a period of one week, from August 15 to August 21, was not the entire register of voters.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt was the list of fresh registrants at the end of the fourth and last quarter of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise covering the period from April 11 to July 31.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis has been the practice for several years.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that the commission had displayed the register three times: from Sept. 24 to Sept. 30, 2021 (First Quarter), December 24 to December 30, 2021 (Second Quarter) and March 26 to \u2013 April 1 2022 (Third Quarter).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yakubu said that a comprehensive schedule of the CVR and the display of the register were shared with stakeholders at the commission\u2019s quarterly meeting just before the inception of the exercise in June 2021.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe wish to assure Nigerians that the commission will display the comprehensive register in all the 8,809 wards and 774 local government areas\/area councils nationwide as envisaged in Section 19(1) of the Electoral Act, 2022,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has denied the claim by a coalition of civil society organisations that it violated some aspects of the 2022 Electoral Act&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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