INEC Removes 1.6m Invalid Registrations From Voters Register.
Joash Amupitan, SAN, announced this at a press conference on Monday in Abuja.
He explained that following complaints, claims and objections raised by the public during the display of the register at ward level between 9th and 15th October, 2026 and its subsequent online publication, the invalid registrations were removed by the commission.
He revealed that 1,608,660 confirmed invalid registrations removed were from the 2025/2026 Continuous Voter Registration (CVR), while 873 verified deceased voters were removed as a separate category.
Amupitan explained that INEC harvested 11,088,238 records from the three phases of the 2025/2026 CVR, while the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) initially flagged 1,545,052 for examination. He stressed that before the preliminary register was published, 1,277,052 had already been confirmed invalid and excluded. Amupitan noted that after display, a further 268,000 cases went through adjudication — 217,722 were confirmed invalid and removed, while 50,278 were cleared as valid and retained. He disclosed that additional screening later identified 113,886 more invalid registrations, which were also removed.
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