Nigerians with double registration liable to one year imprisonment, INEC warns

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned that Nigerians who engage in double voter registration would be liable to one year imprisonment or a fine.

INEC National Commissioner and Chairman (Information and Voter Education Committee), Festus Okoye, disclosed this at a workshop on technological applications in the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) Process Systems for Heads of Department of ICT in the States and Federal Capital Territory in Lagos.

Section 117 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) criminalises registering more than once and spells out a fine not exceeding N100,000 or imprisonment for one year or both.

“Already registered voters that have no issues with their registration are not supposed to register during this exercise. So doing will amount to double registration and constitute an electoral offence,” he said.