The Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee(INEC) in Lagos State has described the African Democratic Congress’s (ADC) allegation of determine manipulation within the ongoing Steady Voter Registration (CVR) within the state as unfounded and inaccurate.
The Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) studies that ADC not too long ago alleged potential manipulations of the web pre-registration train for the CVR in Lagos State, amongst different states.
Reacting in an announcement on Monday in Lagos, Mr Taiwo Gbadegesin, Head, Voter Training and Publicity, INEC, Lagos State, stated that the hypothesis remained a figment of the social gathering’s creativeness.
“The Lagos registration figures are in line with previous CVR tendencies and mirror the state’s demographic realities: a big. youthful and tech-savvy inhabitants.
“Within the final CVR (2021-2022), Lagos recorded the best variety of registrations nationwide.
“The State’s whole registered voters rose from 6,570,291 earlier than the train to 7,060,195 afterwards. The present figures, due to this fact, align with this established sample.
“Additionally it is necessary to notice that the current knowledge covers not solely new registrants but in addition residents making use of for transfers, replacements of misplaced of broken Everlasting Voter Playing cards (PVCs) and updates to private data.
“It’s due to this fact inaccurate to equate the totals solely with recent registrations,” Gbadegesin stated.
In line with him, the numbers additionally mirror the fee’s efficient deployment in addition to the state workplace’s quite a few and sustained public consciousness efforts.
He stated that INEC had been selling transparency in finishing up its constitutional mandate.
“INEC Lagos operates an open-door coverage, making day by day registration knowledge obtainable to stakeholders.
“The fee urges political actors and the general public to please keep away from unnecessary speculations and depend on verified knowledge and official data.
“INEC Lagos State stays totally dedicated to its constitutional mandate of delivering free, truthful, clear and credible elections starting with an inclusive, credible and accountable voter registration,” Gbadegesin stated.
NAN remembers that INEC on Aug. 18 launched a nationwide CVR with on-line pre-registration through its portal: https://www.cvr.inecnigeria.org OR www.cvr.inec.gov.ng.
The in-person bodily registration/biometric capturing began one week after on Aug. 25.
INEC had on Aug. 25 revealed {that a} whole of 1,379,342 Nigerians accomplished the web pre-registration course of within the first week of the CVR, performed from Aug. 18 to Aug. 24, 2025.
The CVR State Pre-Registration Report launched by the fee confirmed that Osun State emerged with the best variety of pre-registrations, recording a powerful 393,269 registrants, the most important share by share at 28.51 p.c.
This was intently adopted by Lagos State, recording 222,205 entries, a commanding 16.11 p.c of the nationwide whole.
Ogun additionally had a powerful turnout with 132,823 pre-registrations, representing 9.63 p.c.
Nevertheless, the opposition ADC has been elevating considerations in regards to the genuineness of those figures, alleging manipulations.
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