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Due to the low turnout of prospective registrants at various registration centres the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC as fixed 31st July 2022 as New Deadline For Continuous Voter Registration CVR.
"The CVR is hereby extended for another two weeks until Sunday 31st July 2022, thereby bringing the total duration of the extension to 31 days (1st - 31st July 2022), the exercise has also been extended to eight hours daily from 9.00am - 5.00pm instead of the current duration of six hours (9.00am - 3.00pm) daily; and the exercise is also extended to include weekends (Saturdays and Sundays) as against only weekdays.
National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye in a press statement revealed that the Commission met in an extraordinary session today, Friday 15th July 2022, and discussed among other things, the suspension of the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR).
Okoye disclosed that this suspension of CVR followed the judgement delivered by the Federal High Court on Wednesday 13th July 2022 in which it dismissed the suit filed by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) which is seeking an extension of the exercise beyond 30th June 2022.
He said, the Court has affirmed that INEC is at liberty to appoint a date of its choice to suspend the CVR, provided it is not later than 90 days before the date fixed for the General Election as provided in Sec. 9(6) of the Electoral Act 2022.
He noted that in compliance with the interim injunction of the Court pending the determination of the substantive suit, and in order to enable more Nigerians to register, the Commission continued with the CVR beyond 30th June 2022. For this reason, the CVR has already been extended beyond 30th June 2022 for a period of 15 days.
Okoye pointed out that with the judgement of the Federal High Court, all legal encumbrances have now been removed. He advised eligible citizens not to wait until the last few days before they inundate the centres again to register.
