INEC Extends Voters Card Registration Exercise

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has agreed to extend the ongoing Continuous Voters’ Registration CVR exercise by 60 days.

Earlier, the House of Representatives has urged INEC to extend the deadline for the continuous voter registration by an extra 60 days from June 30, 2022, to enable more Nigerians to register.

The Commission yesterday, assured Nigerians that it will comply with the court order to extend the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration to June 30.

The exercise, which was meant to end in June 2022 was greeted by calls to extend the CVR exercise.

Generally, there has been an increase in number of people flooding voters’ registration centers across the country.

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, had stopped the electoral body from ending the exercise until all eligible voters had been registered.

The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Electoral Matters, Aishatu Jibril Dukku, today while briefing lawmakers told members during a plenary session that the Commission had agreed to extend the CVR to 60 days.

The Committee held a meeting with INEC yesterday and they agreed to extend the CVR.

The House of Representatives also called on the Commission to deploy additional staff