The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared as invalid the completed registration of no fewer than 106,280 voters in Ekiti and Osun states for flouting the guidelines stipulated for the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise.
INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this during a press conference at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja, saying the issues were uncovered while cleaning up the voter register.
Yakubu said in Ekiti State, a total of 40,234 new voters were registered out of which 17,640 were voided, representing 43.9% of the completed registrations while in Osun, 218,142 new registrations were completed, out of which 88,630 were invalidated, representing 40.6% of the total number of new voters.
He, however, said the infraction occurred in all the states of the federation as 1,126,359, representing 44.6%, were invalid out of 2,523,458 new registrations.
