INEC has announced a new date for the commencement of physical registration of voters.
Gatekeepers News reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced July 26 for the commencement of physical registration of votes.
The commission earlier gave July 19 for the commencement of physical registration but discovered it may be affected by public holidays.
INEC National Commissioner, and Chairman, Information, and Voter Education, Festus Okoye, in a statement on Friday, said the new date was fixed after the federal government’s declaration of July 20 and July 21 as public holidays.
The statement read, “Consequently, the physical registration of voters will now commence on Monday 26 July 2021. Online registrants that have scheduled appointments from 19th July 2021 to 23rd July 2021 will have their appointments rescheduled.
“It is important to emphasise that this Continuous Voter Registration will take place over a period of one year. The Commission assures all Nigerians that no citizen eligible to register as a voter will be left behind.”
On June 28, INEC launched an online portal where citizens can register or request to update their voter information before they complete the process physically at designated centres across the country.
It disclosed that 66 percent of applications received so far on the online portal are from youths.
The Commission said, “Out of 542,576 online registrants so far, 356,777 (or 66%) are young people between the ages of 18 and 34 years. This is followed by 134,719 middle-aged registrants who fall between 35 and 49 years. The third category is elderly persons aged between 50 and 69 years of which 44,896 Nigerians have registered.”
