The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Joash Amupitan, SAN, has instructed that the Commission’s Continuous Voter Registration, CVR, documentation in the South-East bear complete evaluation.
“Our dedication is unwavering: no certified citizen who has registered shall be excluded from voting on account of administrative or logistical challenges,” he said.
He indicated that the National Register of Voters has reached roughly 103 million registered residents.
Amupitan referenced that, pursuant to Section 10 of the Electoral Act 2026, the Commission executed three sequential phases of the CVR initiative.
According to him, Phase I, spanning from twenty fifth August, 2025 to tenth December, 2025, enrolled 2,611,266 voters, whereas Phase II, carried out between fifth January, 2026 and seventeenth April, 2026, enrolled 4,121,835 voters.
He additional famous that Phase III, carried out from eleventh May, 2026 to twenty sixth July, 2026, enrolled 3,867,997 voters.
The INEC Chairman reported that these figures resulted in a cumulative whole of 10,601,098 new registrants, contingent upon remaining Automated Biometric Identification System, ABIS, deduplication verification on the National Headquarters.
He revealed that throughout the third section, the Commission launched, for the inaugural time in Nigeria, the Online Registration Portal, a technological answer engineered “to beat geographical and temporal constraints.”
The INEC Chairman additional said that the Commission had carried out Printable PVC expertise in accordance with Section 18(1) of the Electoral Act 2026, emphasizing that this innovation ensures that “the extended ready interval for accumulating a voter’s card will develop into out of date.”
The Enugu engagement, representing the third section of the Commission’s complete nationwide readiness evaluation tour, succeeded the South-West version held in Lagos on seventh September 2026 and the North-West version carried out in Kaduna on twenty eighth September 2026.
Amupitan famous that the go to held explicit significance as no INEC Chairman had visited the Enugu workplace since 1999.
He noticed that, all through the previous 27 years, zonal preparations of comparable scale had been managed by delegated administrative buildings or administered on the degree of National Commissioners and headquarters directorates.
“Today, as we lengthen our nationwide tour to the South-East, we proceed to depart from that established sample of distant governance,” he said.
