2027: INEC receives over 4,800 claims, 600 objections on voter register

By Omeiza Ajayi

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has received over 4,800 claims and about 600 objections on the preliminary voter register, with a promise that the discrepancies will be corrected before the final register is certified on December 15, 2026.

INEC Chairman, Professor Joash Amupitan SAN, disclosed this on Friday when the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Pre-Election Fact-Finding Mission paid a courtesy visit to the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. The mission is led
by Victor Bockarie Foh, a former Vice-President of Sierra Leone.

Amupitan said the claims, received at the registration areas where the register was displaye...