A total of 2,525,471 registered voters will be participating in the November 6 Anambra governorship election, The Nation has gathered from voters’ register released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
INEC Chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu, in his remarks at an emergency meeting with political parties, disclosed that “the number of valid registrants in Anambra State at the end of the First Quarter of the CVR exercise on 5th September 2021 is 77,475.”
He noted: “This figure has been added to the existing register of 2,447,996 eligible voters used for the 2019 General Election. Accordingly, the number of registered voters in Anambra State now stands at 2,525,471”.
Yakubu revealed further that 62,698 persons who are registered voters went ahead to register afresh but were fished out by the Commission, “as a testimony to the effectiveness of our new system for checking double and multiple registrations, the Commission found out that some 62,698 persons who are already registered voters in Anambra State went ahead to register again. These double or multiple registrations are invalid by law”.
He added: “I am glad to report that we have already completed 10 out of 14 activities in our Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the Governorship election.
” Only yesterday, we published the final list of candidates in our State and Local Government offices in Anambra State and simultaneously uploaded the same information to our website and social media platforms.
” Furthermore, all the 18 political parties participating in the election were issued a soft copy of the updated register of voters at a meeting held in our State Office in Awka.
“We are presently working on the printing of the PVCs. We shall use various channels, including e-mails and text messages, to contact the new voters to collect their PVCs before the election.”
Commenting on attacks on the Commission’s facilities, Yakubu, said: “I am glad to report that we have fully recovered from that attack. The buildings have been completely reconstructed and renovated in readiness for the election.
“All the non-sensitive materials have either been procured afresh or sourced from neighbouring States and our Zonal stores. We are working assiduously with security agencies to ensure that such an attack does not happen again.”
