The ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) effort will not be continued, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
According to InsightnaijaTV, the CVR exercise was extended by two weeks by the National Chairman of the Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, and will now end today, Sunday, July 31, 2022.
The notion of an extension of the election was ruled out by INEC’s spokesman, Festus Okoye, in a press conference with media on Saturday in Awka, Anambra State.
In order to prepare for the 2023 general elections and to fulfill its other constitutional obligations, Okoye said the electoral commission would cease the exercise.
The commission, according to him, will examine the voter registers after the election to remove any instances of suspected double registration, print permanent voter cards (PVC), and display the voter registers in all polling places, among other things.
According to Okoye, individuals who registered to vote or transferred their registrations between January and June 2022 will receive their PVC in October, while those who enlisted in July will obtain theirs by November 2022.
He further revealed that as of July 25, 2022, 276,767 registrants in Anambra State had finished the registration procedure. Okoye congratulated the state’s stakeholders for helping the commission during the exercise.
However, the INEC spokesman reassured Nigerians that Okoye had stated that the commission is ready for the general elections in 2023 and resolved to hold credible, fair, and free elections.
He said: “We deployed a total of 110 INEC development devices to Anambra. 10 malfunctioned. 6 were repaired by our in-house engineers and redeployed back to fields. As you know, the exercise was slowed down at some places in the South East for security purposes. And we devices mitigating measure to fortify it” he said
“In Anambra State, we trained some of our staff to assist in carrying out the exercise. By training some of our staff, we isolated those for transfer, replacement, and others. We trained our staff to assist in rendering the various services. We extracted clear protocol on how to carry out voters transfer.
“Few weeks we isolated places to carry out intervention; we took machines to markets, churches, NUJ, NYSC orientation camp and other places due to large concentration. This helped to mitigate the surging crowd. For complaints over the performance of our staff, we developed a compliant desk for people to voice out their complaints. Over 50 complaints were received and treated. We carried intervention at 82 locations.”
