Moses Ofodeme
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the Continuous Voter Registration exercise in Anambra State for three more days to end on Sunday 20th July 2025.
The INEC, the decision was in response to appeal by the people.
The Commission also commended turnout of registrants in Anambra State and the peaceful conduct of the CVR in all the 326 registration centres in the State.
As of Wednesday 16th July 2025, 96,085 the Commission disclosed new voters have successfully registered in nine days.
On average, the Commission registered over 10,600 voters per day and in addition, 12,595 voters applied for transfer of their registration both within and outside the State while 7,061 persons applied for the update of their records or the replacement of their damaged or lost Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs).
The information was provided at the INEC’s regular weekly meeting in Thursday 17th July 2025.
Among other issues, the meeting reviewed the ongoing preparation for the forthcoming off-cycle governorship election in Anambra State and further update on applications for registration by new political parties.
Thereafter, the Commission will display the register for claims and objections by citizens as provided by law, followed by a further clean-up of the data using the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS). Subsequently, the detailed breakdown of the new registrants by age, gender, occupation and disability will be published for public information. At this preliminary stage, 56,017 (58%) of new registrants are female while 50,429 (52.48%) are young people between the ages of 18 and 34.
Meanwhile, the Commission has received five more letters of intent from associations seeking registration as political parties.
This brings the number received so far to 134. The details of the new associations, indicating their proposed names, acronyms, logos, addresses and interim leaderships are published on our website and other platforms for public information.
The Commission said it will continue to keep the citizens up to date on all its activities.