INEC kickstarts online CVR August 18 in Akwa Ibom

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced plans to open its portal for the process of Continuous Voter Registration, CVR, in Akwa Ibom State ahead of the 2027 general elections.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner  in the state, Obo Effanga who disclosed this during his maiden Media briefing at INEC state head office in Uyo on Wednesday, said apart from the online registration process, there would be opportunity for a physical registration across INEC local government  headquarters in the state starting from August 25.

He advised those who started the online registration process to come to the state office or local government office headquarters for fingerprints and photographs capturing to complete the registration process.

He also stated that the exercise would give room for those who want to effect some corrections or changes on their cards, do card transfers or did not collect their PVCs to have their concerns addressed.

Effanga, who cautioned against multiple registrations, noted that incase of card loss, the person should go for reprinting of card in the office as any attempt to register again would invalidate the whole process.

His words, “In the next couple of weeks INEC will start again the process of the Continuous Voter Registration. Starting on the 18th of August, we will have opportunity for people to do the online pre registration of processes and then from 25 August you’ll have the walk in physical process.

“Now this is not going to be different from what we did prior to 2023.You know that INEC has created a portal where members of the public who want to register to vote can process, go online, start the process and then only come to us physically for the capture of the photographs and fingerprints for the registration process to be completed.

“If you want to do a transfer from one location to another, there’s a mistake in the information we have about you maybe your address, your name was misspelt or any of those things that you want to make corrections on, you can actually do this from the comfort of your home without coming to INEC.

“For those who didn’t collect their cards prior to now, and if there’s any correction they want done to the card, they can do that.But from the 18th, people who have access to the Internet, they can do the transfer. People also want to migrate from one polling unit to another, you can do that through the Internet or you come to us physically from the 25th.”