Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Festus Okoye, the National Electoral Commissioner for Information and Voter Education of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the Commission is yet to take a final decision on whether to prosecute voters who registered multiple times.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that INEC had disclosed earlier this week that it found 1,126,359 records out of the 2, 523,458 fresh registrants that registered between June 28, 2021, and January 14, 2022, 1,126,359 to be invalid and consequently delisted them.
According to INEC, it also detected several double, multiple, and ineligible registrants and has consequently invalidated them, adding that the entries are against the law and violators risk fine or jail term.
“Yes, we have so many multiple and double registrants. The challenge is there are some of them that acted based on misinformation, and also disinformation.
“There are also some of them that acted on the basis of ignorance. Yes, ignorance is not a basis for breaking the law, so at the appropriate time, the Commission will take a position on whether to prosecute those who broke the law or whether to take a different course of action or pathway.
“The Commision has not taken that decision yet,” Okoye said in a recent interview with Arise TV, monitored by this newspaper.
