From Maiharaji Altine Gusau
The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that, 1,126,359 out of 2,523,458 Permanent Voters Cards that were registered on line between June and December are invalid.
This was announced by the Resident Electoral Commissioner in charge of Zamfara state, Professor Sa’idu Babura while speaking to newsmen in his office in Gusau.
Babura said, “After the authentication exercise it was discovered that, out of the 2,523,458 registrants nationwide, 1,390,519 are valid while 1,126,359 are invalid”.
“This means that, 44.6% of all those who registered between June and December 2021 are multiple registration”.
He maitained that in Zamfara state, as at December 2021, only 33,09 people have registered on line stressing however that, only 19,469 are valid, while 13,600 representing 41.1% are invalid.
On the issue of poling units, Babura said there were 2,516 poling units in the state in 2019, but with the addition of 1013 poling units, the figure has now risen to 3,529.
