The Independent National Electoral Commission in Oyo state has disclosed that the commission in the state has been able to register about 19,135 persons in the nationwide Continuous Voter Registration exercise in the State.
Revealing this on Thursday at a press briefing held at the head office of the commission, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Oyo State, Mutiu Agboke, said the 19,135 registrants are those that have completed both online and physical registration out of 72,644 who registered during the online pre-registration exercise that started on June 28, 2021.
Agboke went on to say that the CVR had been temporarily suspended on September 21 and would restart on October 3. He went on to say that the suspension is necessary to allow time for claims and objections arising from the registration process in the state’s 33 local government units.
He also mentioned that now is the right moment for the commission to publish the voter registration list for public inspection.
The public exhibition, he continued, is to allow individuals to assist the commission in identifying invalid registrants on the list before the register is cleaned up and new registrants are added to the current register, followed by the printing of their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).
Agboke said the electoral commission was launching a number of voter education and advocacy programs to prevent double registration and registrants failing to identify voting units and wards.
He urged everyone to help the commission by identifying multiple registrations, deceased persons, ineligible registrants, including foreigners and Nigerians under the age of voting, so that the INEC register could be cleaned.