Leadership
14 Feb 2011
Abuja/Ilorin — The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will today display the preliminary register of voters, even as it has issued guidelines on how one can inspect the register.
The register shall be on display from 9am to 5pm every day until February 19.The commission has disclosed that multiple registration had been uncovered and that the names of the culprits were being compiled for prosecution.
The chief press secretary to the INEC chairman, Kayode Idowu, confirmed to LEADERSHIP yesterday that the register would be displayed in all the registration units and advised those that registered to go and verify their entries.
According to Idowu, the display of the voter register, which will be done simultaneously in all registration units, would accord everybody easy access to the register for inspection.
When asked about the total number of registered voters collated by INEC, Idowu said he was not in a position to disclose that, but assured that the figures would be made public today. INEC chairman Professor Attahiru Jega had last week announced that 63, 981, 460 voters' names had so far been collated by the commission, although it was expected that at least 65 million voters might be recorded.
INEC at the weekend released guidelines for the display of the preliminary voter register in all the 120,000 registration units across the country. The guidelines, which were contained in a statement issued by the secretary to the commission, Abdullahi A. Kaugama, said that "the display period shall afford any person qualified for registration as a voter, to, if his/her name is omitted, or is incorrectly stated in the register, claim in writing in Form EC2, to have his/her name inserted or to have such entry corrected or any other omission inserted".
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