Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has deleted 1,608,660 invalid registrations from the preliminary register of voters.
This comes after a nationwide review of entries from the 2025/2026 Continuous Voter Registration exercise.
The commission also said it removed 876 records belonging to persons verified to be deceased, while 873 additional records of deceased persons were identified and removed, bringing the total number of deceased persons removed to 1,749.
INEC Chairman, Prof Joash Amupitan (SAN), disclosed this on Monday while briefing journalists on the outcome of the review of the preliminary register of voters.
He said the commission received 11,088,238 registration records from the three phases of the 2025/2026 CVR exercise.
According to him, INEC’s Automated Biometric Identification System initially flagged 1,545,052 records for further examination.
However, Amupitan clarified that being flagged by the automated system did not automatically make a registration invalid, as each case underwent further examination and authorised adjudication.
The clean-up exercise followed complaints, claims and objections raised by Nigerians after the preliminary register was displayed nationwide between October 9 and 15, 2026.
