The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has requested the National Population Commission (NPC) to avail it with data on people who died in Nigeria from 2015 to date for the purpose of expunging their names from the voters’ register.
The request was made yesterday in Abuja when the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, visited the headquarters of NPC.
Yakubu said INEC would do everything possible to clean up the voters’ register before the 2019 elections, including expunging the names of dead people and underage voters.
He said between the last general elections held in 2015 and now, many people had died and that INEC would partner with NPC to identify and remove them from the database.
He also requested the partnership of the NPC in the demarcation of enumeration areas for the purpose of the election.
The Chairman of NPC, Chief Eze Duruiheoma, said INEC’s requests would be granted, adding that though Nigeria’s birth and death statistics were not comprehensive, the available data would be forwarded to INEC.
