INEC registers 6.2m voters in Lagos, Ondo

No fewer than 1.3m eligible voters have been registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission in Ondo State since the exercise started on January 15.

Also, the INEC said on Wednesday that it had registered 4.9 million eligible voters in Lagos State as at Monday.

The Resident Electoral Commission in Lagos, Dr. Adekunle Ogunmola, gave the figure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.

“We hope to register up to six million people or even more before the end of the exercise but by our count on Monday, we have registered about 4.9 million voters,” Ogunmola said.

Investigations by our correspondent at the Ondo State INEC office in Akure on Wednesday, revealed that 1, 270, 098 people had been registered as at Monday, January 31.

The Administrative Secretary of the Commission in the state, Dr. Samson Awujoola, who confirmed the figure in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, expressed the hope that all eligible voters in the state would have been fully registered at the end of the exercise on Saturday.

Awujoola said the commission had been able to resolve all the technical challenges that greeted the exercise at the initial stage.

“We don’t have any major challenge for now. All our equipment are working perfectly and I hope that by Saturday, we would have been able to register all the eligible voters in the state,” he said.

-Punch

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