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2023 Elections : INEC to stop online registration in April

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April 1, 2022
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Lagos – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will shut down the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) Pre- Registration portal in April in preparations for the 2023 general elections.

Barr. Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen on Thursday in Lagos.

Okoye said: “We are going to shut down the portal latest by April but the physical registration will be going going on until June.

“After June, the possibility of extending the CVR process is next to impossibility because we got to clean up the register, do claims and objections, and we have to print PVCs, people have to collect PVCs and we have to give every registered political party the voters register that will be used for the 2023 general election.

“The law has obligated us to stop everything relating to voter registration at a particularly point in time.”

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According to him, those who want to use INEC pre-registration portal can do that now because after sometime the commission is going to shut down the online pre-registration process while people can only complete their physical biometric capturing.

He said that the shut down had become imperative for INEC to clear those who have done their online pre-registration for the purposes of capturing their biometrics.

The INEC spokesman said that the fourth and the final quarter of the ongoing CVR, billed to start on April 11, would be rounded off in June, urging Nigerians to do the needful at the right time, without waiting till the last minutes rush.

Okoye said that the commission had seven services on the online registration portal for eligible voters as against six in previous registrations, adding that the seventh allowed people to locate where their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) is domiciled.

According to him, for those who registered during the first, second and third quarters of the ongoing CVR, the chairman of the commission will soon address a world press conference and let Nigerians know the date and time when the new PVCs will be ready and the points of collection.

“Some of these PVCs have already being printed and we want people to come and collect their PVCs.

“The fourth and the last quarter will end sometime in June. Now, we do not want a situation where people will begin to rush to go and register at 11th hour to create a surge in our local government and state offices.

“We want people to approach the state or local government offices now and get registered. We have also devolved the CVR to the various registration areas/wards on rotational basis. We want people to go and register now.

“We do not want a situation where people will overwhelm our offices towards the end of June. People should seize the opportunity and do the needful at this point in time,” the INEC boss said

Meanwhile, Okoye added that many people were yet to collect their PVCs printed from previous INEC registrations, saying the commission had been making it possible and seamless for people to collect their PVCs.

According to him, Nigerians who made sacrifice to register for PVCs should make additional sacrifice of going to either the state of local government offices of INEC to individually picked up their PVCs

“In a place like Lagos and in other states, we have so many PVCs that have remained uncollected from precious registrations and we want people to access these voter cards.

“There are millions of PVCs yet to be collected nationwide. In fact, in Lagos State we have over a million PVCs that have not been collected and this varies from state to state.

“We have millions of PVCs that have not been collected by those who registered since 2011 up till this time,” he said.

According to him, after sometime the commission will gather all the uncollected PVCs and deposit them in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to ensure that those PVCs do not fall into wrong hands.

Okoye said that one of the biggest challenges facing the ongoing CVR was that hundreds of Nigerians in diaspora who used the online pre-registration portal were yet to come back to the country to complete their biometric capturing physically.

He said that the law stated that they must present themselves physically to complete the process to be eligible for the issuance of the PVCs to vote or to be voted for.

“So, those who started the online pre-registration and have not completed it, after sometime, it will lapse,” he added.

Okoye said the Nigerians who had moved from one place to another did not need to register afresh but only need to do online transfer of details to their new state, local government, ward and polling unit for INEC to print new PVCs for such person.

He said that the same applied to those who had lost their PVCs and those whose PVCs were defaced.

Okoye, who noted that multiple registration was punishable electoral offence, said that INEC would use its Automatic Biometric Finger Identification System (ABIS) to clean up those who engaged in multiple registration.

The commissioner, who urged Nigerians to know the power and value of their votes, advised them to involved to make a difference in governance.

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