The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Wednesday said following the its cleaning up of newly registered voters, the remaining 9,518,188 new voters have been added to existing register of 84,004,084 voters to bring it to 93,522,272 million voters.
INEC Chairman Prof Mahmood Yakubu stated this at the third quarterly meeting with political parties at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja.
He said, so far, the commission had identified 23 registration officers involved in this unethical conduct and that disciplinary action against them had commenced in earnest.
The INEC boss, while cautioning the political parties against violence and depriving opponents of public facilities in their domain, said, “the commission will continue to track the campaigns and will not hesitate to initiate the prosecution of violators as provided by law.”
The INEC chairman said: “The preliminary register of voters in Nigeria now stands at 93,522,272. It is preliminary because…
