We Have Not Print Voters’ Cards Of 2022 Registrants -INEC

• INEC feared being under pressure to conduct free and fair elections in 2023
• It cried that it has not printed PVCs of Nigerians who participated in the CVR exercise from

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has not printed the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) of Nigerians who registered to vote between January 15 and July 31, 2022.

Festus Okoye, National Commissioner of INEC, stated this on Wednesday on Channels Television’s Politics Today show.

Okoye said, “If you are a registered voter, in other words, if you belong to the class of 84 million Nigerians that have already registered, you can track your data in our database.

“Secondly, if you were one of those that registered with the Commission during the Continuous Voter Registration exercise between the 28th day of June 2021 and the 14th day of January 2022, you can track where your Permanent Voter Card is and you will still be in a position to collect it.

“But if you register between the 15th day of January 2022 and the 31st day of July 2022, the implication is that you are not yet a registered voter in the true sense of the word because we have just finished the cleaning up of the voters’ register which is still ongoing.

“So, it is not possible for you to know where your permanent voter’s card is because we are yet to print your permanent voter cards and we are yet to make these permanent voter cards available for the registrants.”

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He stated that INEC is under pressure to hold free and fair elections in 2023 and that it will be difficult for any politician to compromise the integrity of the electoral process in next year’s election.

Okoye also stated that INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu may only be removed lawfully if he commits any offense against his position, but he discounted rumors of his removal.

Earlier on Wednesday, Yakubu stated at the Third Quarterly Meeting with Political Parties for the Year 2022 in Abuja that 40% of newly registered voters are students, while 76.5 percent are young people.

According to Yakubu, 9,518,188 new voters have been added to the existing registration of 84,004,084 registrants, bringing Nigeria’s preliminary voter register to 93,522,272.

INEC terminated the CVR in July after a one-month extension after the Federal High Court dismissed a challenge brought by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) seeking an extension of the exercise beyond June 30, 2022.