The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has lamented that several deceased persons are still on INEC’s record as part of the electorate.
“Entries belonging to Nigerians who died as far back as 2011 remain on INEC’s records, alongside cases of duplication. The commission looks forward to leveraging NIMC’s data architecture to progressively clean up the register,” Amupitan told the Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Abisoye Coker-Odusote and her management team who visited him in Abuja, yesterday.
The INEC boss expressed the resolve of the commission to enter into partnership with NIMC to ensure a credible voters register and transparent elections in next year’s polls.
He declared that the newly signed NIMC Act 2026 lays the foundation for a new electoral system in Nigeria built on verified identity and stronger data integrity, adding that with NIMC’s database now covering more than 136 million enrolled Nigerians, deeper cross-platform integration between the two commissions would allow for continuous auditing, verification and elimination of duplicate or underage entries on the voter register.
“Also, INEC’s newly introduced online voter registration platform is deliberately anchored on the National Identification Number (NIN) as a verification protocol, a critical step toward a more seamless Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) process,” he added.
