Nigeria electoral commission say e dey review more than 4,800 claims and about 600 objections to di preliminary voter register before final certification on 15 December 2026. INEC chairman Joash Amupitan give di figures for meeting with ECOWAS pre-election fact-finding mission for Abuja on 30 October, as Punch and BusinessDay report.
Di figures cover submissions wey dem receive by 29 October, according to Punch report. People submit claims for places wey dem display di register, while objections pass through electoral officers and Resident Electoral Commissioners. Amupitan describe most claims as corrections or other small matters, and say online publication dey also help identify things wey no match.
Di chairman say di register contain more than 103 million registered citizens. E promise to address valid issues before dem certify di final register. So di numbers na account of requests wey dem dey review; dem no be finding say every entry wey person challenge na fraud, or say dem don approve every change wey people request.
INEC also plan nationwide mock accreditation exercise for November to test voter accreditation and electronic transmission of results. Amupitan say dem go authenticate polling-unit results before dem reach di commission results-viewing portal, IReV. Na preparations and safeguards dem describe; di announcement no establish say di rehearsal wey dey come don already succeed.
Di commission published election calendar put presidential and National Assembly voting for 16 January 2027, then governorship and state assembly elections for 6 February. Those scheduled elections different from di November rehearsal. Na di official calendar provide di relevant election timetable, no be date wey person guess from training exercise.
Former Sierra Leone vice-president Victor Bockarie Foh lead di ECOWAS delegation. Their work include checking readiness and engaging political parties, government, election officials and civil society. Amupitan also describe regional readiness visits and changes to deployment plans because of terrain and security challenges.
Di practical issue now na whether di commission go resolve di recorded claims, document di changes wey follow and finish di planned checks before elections. Public checking of preliminary list na part of review process. This report record di figures and timetable wey di commission state; e no independently certify di register or predict election result.