The Independent National Electoral Commission has deleted 2.7 million Nigerians who engaged in double registration during the Continuous Voter Registration.
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The INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, made this known at an event in Washington D.C, United States of America.
Yakubu, at the National Endowment for Democracy event, said 2.7 million double registrations were weeded out of the last Continuous Voters Registration conducted by the commission.
According to him, about 50 per cent of the new PVCs are ready but yet to be distributed to collection centres.
He also raised concerns about the rising levels of insecurity across the country, saying the Commission has its “fingers crossed”.
He said: “It is a perennial issue because, at the end of the day, it is not new but the dimension of the insecurity is new in the sense that in the past, it was localised or confined to a particular part of the country – the North-East but now, it is more widespread.
“We are keeping our eyes, particularly, on the North West and the South Eastern part of the country.
“Elections are conducted by human beings.
“We worry about the security of our officials, materials, and even the voters themselves.
“Without them, elections cannot be conducted.
”Yakubu said the PVCs will be available from November.
