2027: INEC must use existing voters register — Okoye

Former Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) National Commissioner Festus Okoye stated that the commission has no choice but to utilize the existing voters' register for the 2027 general elections. According to Punch Nigeria, Okoye noted there is little that can be done to address concerns regarding the register's credibility before the next elections, meaning the country must proceed with the current database.

Okoye described the existing register as opaque and characterized it as neither clean nor genuine. To address these issues, he insisted that Nigeria must undertake a fresh biometric registration exercise to create a new voters' register immediately after the 2027 elections are conducted.

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