A Call For Immediate De-Certification Of The Bogus Figure Of 73.5m Registered Voters

Sahara Reporters

8 March 2011

A Call For Immediate De-Certification Of The Bogus Figure Of 73.5m Registered Voters

And Subjection Of Same To The AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification System) Analysis

Sir: On Thursday 3rd day of March 2011, Your Commission released the “final figure of 73.58million registered voters” as “authentic” National Register of Voters for Nigeria. The Commission had before then, released the “provisional” figure of 67.7 million registered voters.

Since the “final” figure of 73.58 million registered voters was released and certified by Your Commission, independent experts have continued to pick holes in the authenticity of the figure with respect to demographic reflection of the figures. The main criticism trailing the release of  the“final” figure was that Your Commission released to the public a bogus, inflated, raw, unprocessed, unverified, disputable and questionable as well as unscientific registration figures in the form of a “new National Register of Voters”  to be used in the April 2011 general elections.