INEC PVC Pre-Registration: ADC Raises Alarm Over Extraordinary Registration in Southwest

• The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has reacted to the report of the First PVC Pre-Registration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
• The ADC has called on the electoral body to explain the reason for the extraordinary registration in the southwest
• The ADC National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, raised alarm over the suspicious pre-registration report

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FCT, Abuja - The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has raised an alarm over the suspicious Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) First PVC Pre-Registration report.

The ADC called on the electoral body to explain the extraordinary registration in the southwest.

The opposition party described the first-week report on the new Continuous Voter registrations as “statistically implausible” figures.

The ADC National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said the numbers from Osun State alone defy both historical patterns and demographic realities

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He raised alarm over the nearly 400,000 new registrations reportedly completed in just seven days.

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The ADC warned that such suspicious figures, if left unchecked, could undermine confidence in Nigeria’s entire electoral process.

Abdullahi said the South West zone alone accounted for an extraordinary 67 percent of all pre-registrations nationwide.

The party therefore calls on INEC to explain how one week’s registration exceeded the total number of new voters recorded in Osun state over the last four years combined.

“The anomalies become even more glaring when viewed in the context of the overall registration report. Across the six geopolitical zones, the South West alone accounts for 848,359 pre-registrations, an astonishing 67 percent of the national total. By contrast, the entire South East recorded just 1,998 pre-registrations. To further illustrate, three states—Osun, Lagos, and Ogun—make up 54.2 percent of all pre-registrations in Nigeria, while five states combined—Ebonyi, Imo, Enugu, Abia, and Adamawa—barely recorded 4,153, or 0.2 percent, while the entire North East recorded just 6.1 percent.”

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