The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will shutdown the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) Pre-Registration online portal.
The shut down is mooted to take place in April, in preparation for the 2023 general elections.
Mr Festus Okoye, the INEC National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos.
Mr Okoye said: “We are going to shut down the online portal latest by April but the physical registration will be going on until June.
After June, the possibility of extending the CVR process is next to impossibility because we got to clean up the register, do claims and objections, and we have to print PVCs.”
Mr Okoye added that, this is to enable people collect their PVCs, as they have to give every registered political party the voters register that will be used for the 2023 general election.
“The law has obligated us to stop everything relating to voter registration at a particularly point in time”, he said.
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Also, Mr Okoye informed the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that many people were yet to collect their PVCs printed from previous INEC registrations, saying the commission had been making it possible and easy for people to collect their PVCs.
According to him, Nigerians who made sacrifice to register for PVCs should make additional sacrifice to go to either INEC’s state or local government offices to individually pick them up.
For those who registered during the first, second and third quarters of the ongoing CVR, Mr Okoye said the chairman of the commission will soon let them know the date and time when their PVCs will be ready, and the points of collection.
“We do not want a situation where people will begin to rush to register at the 11th hour, to create a surge in our local government and state offices”, he said.
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