Voters registration deadline remains June 30, says INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission says the deadline for the ongoing registration of voters remains June 30.

It was reacting to speculations on Monday that the deadline had been extended to August 31.
Although INEC had earlier hinted that it might heed the clamour for extension of the deadline due to upsurge in the number of potential registrants and the attendant logistics hitches, it said on Monday that it had not extended it.
Some online reports on Monday morning claimed the deadline had been extended.
But Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, chief press secretary to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, responding to an enquiry on this, said, “No. It is not true. The deadline for the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) is still 30th June. The online pre-registration service closed since 30th May.
“What the commission has done to respond to the surge in numbers of those who want to register is to deploy more INEC Voter Enrolment Devices (IVEDs) to areas where the pressure is highest.
“These areas are all the states in the South-East region, Kano, Lagos and the FCT.”