The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it would conduct a thorough clean-up of the country’s register of voters to further sanitise and strengthen the register’s integrity.
The INEC Chairman, Joash Amupitan, said this during the commission’s quarterly consultative meeting with Civil Society Organisations on Wednesday in Abuja.
Mr Amupitan, a professor, said that a credible register of voters remained the bedrock of free, fair and transparent elections, stressing “no electoral process can command public confidence without trust in the integrity of its voters’ register”.
He noted that Nigeria’s national register, first
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