INEC - 80 MILLION NIGERIANS ARE EXPECTED TO VOTE IN 2019

Yakubu speaking on the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) said that no fewer than 3.2 million Nigerians had been registered in addition to the 70 million registered voters for the 2015 general elections

According to him, the credibility of election depends on the credibility of the Voter Register. We are now doing it continuously. We have seen some challenges and we are responding to them.

“We started in April and as at last week, and we have registered 3.2 million Nigerians on top of the 70 million registered voters for the 2015 general elections that we had before.
“Our projection is that the Voter Register will probably be over 80 million by 2019,” Yakubu said.
He also revealed that about eight million Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) were yet to be collected by their respective owners.
“We haven’t made much progress in the last two years, but we have made elaborate arrangements with the states to ensure that the cards are collected.”

Source: ( NAN )