CDD asks INEC to explain voter register irregularities
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Daily Post
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) calls on Nigeria’s electoral commission to explain irregularities in the voter register, after 54 people in 10 states were implicated.
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) West Africa has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of Nigeria to explain in detail the irregularities found in the national voter register and take measures to prevent them from recurring. Its Election Lead, Chibuike Mgbeahuruike, was speaking on Arise News on Saturday evening, according to the Daily Post.
The request follows INEC’s disclosure of the identities of 54 people across 10 states suspected of being responsible for irregularities during the voter registration process. Mgbeahuruike welcomed the decision to acknowledge the problems and identify those responsible, seeing it as a positive step for the credibility of the register. He nevertheless stressed the need for Nigerians to know how the irregularities occurred and what measures INEC intends to take to prevent them.
“INEC has made a good start by acknowledging the problems and identifying those responsible. But beyond knowing who is involved, we also need to understand how this could have happened,” he said. He added that such failures should never have occurred and that, since they had been discovered, the commission must explain itself and correct weaknesses in its procedures. “More importantly, we need assurances that this will not happen again,” he continued.
The statement comes after INEC removed 1.61 million invalid registrations from the register and rejected photographs generated by artificial intelligence, measures that have not dispelled doubts about the reliability of the voter register ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
