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68.83 mln voters register for Nigeria's February polls

Xinhua, January 14, 2015 Adjust font size:

Nigeria's electoral commission has registered 68,833,476 voters for the general elections slated for February 2015, a top official said Tuesday.

Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said this at a news conference and a presentation of voter registration to the leadership of political parties.

Jega said the commission arrived at the figure after removing over four million voters that engaged in duplicate registration from the 73.5 million registrants nationwide.

The removal was done through the commission's AFIX and Business Rules for the printing of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).

AFIX is the software that allows the commission to identify and exclude any double registration from it data base.

The chairman said the figure would be made available to the public on the commission's website in the next couple of days.

Jega added that the commission was ready to provide evidence to any political parties in doubt about the figure and the process used in the computation of the register.

A total of 14 candidates were duly nominated by political parties for presidential election to be held on Feb. 14.

The chairman also disclosed that the commission had received all funds required to conduct the general elections from the government.

The commission had taken delivery of additional PVCs from the contractor. And INEC would use card readers for the 2015 elections as it had started to deploy the received readers to states.

According to the chairman, the commission has yet to receive any formal notification from the House of Representatives directing it to allow people with Temporary Voter Cards for the 2015 general elections. Endite