The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says continuous voter registration will resume next year.
Disclosing this during an interview with journalists, the commission’s chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu said the voter registration would last up to six months before the 2023 general elections.
“The Commission intend to resume voter registration in the first quarter of 2021. And once we resume, it will be continuous for one and a half years, at least until six months to the next general election.
“In other words, the Commission is not going to resume voter registration for a week, two weeks or a month but we are working out the details,” Yakubu said.
The chairman who further disclosed that the commission is currently involved in about 1700 pre-election and post-election court cases from 2019 general elections, added that the Commission was not paying “fantastic” legal fee, but “applying Federal Ministry of Justice scale of fees.”
“For instance, if we have a case for governorship election before the supreme court, it’s a maximum of N4.5 million, but because of the number of cases, we are almost getting close to 1700 pre-election and post-election cases in 2019 alone, and every day you hear people going to court and joining INEC, but we will continue to do what we can within available resources,” he added.
