The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reacted to calls for it to resume the suspended Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise.
Speaking with Newsmen at Abuja INEC’s National commissioner and chairman, information and voter education committee
Festus Okoye, stated that it will be “constitutionally and legally impossible” for the commission to resume the CVR before the 2023 polls.
INEC had initially fixed June 30 as the deadline for the CVR exercise which started in 2021 but the commission later extended the deadline to July 31.
Some individuals and civil society organisations subsequently instituted legal action against the commission for ending the exercise, saying it should only be stopped 90 days before the election, as stipulated by law.
It would be recalled that a federal high court in Abuja had ordered INEC to resume the CVR exercise.
The news agency subsequently clarified that the court refused to grant the request of the plaintiffs.
In reaction, Okoye said INEC has not received the certified true copies (CTCs) of the judgement of the court.
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