ADC Demands INEC Clarify “Implausible” PVC Pre-Registration Figures, Question South West Registrations In One Week

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to explain what it described as “statistically implausible” pre-registration figures in its first-week report on Continuous Voter Registration.

TIMES OF NIGERIA gathered from an ADC statement that Osun State alone recorded 393,269 new registrations in just seven days — a number that surpasses the state’s total new voter registrations over the past four years.

The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said such anomalies could “undermine confidence in Nigeria’s entire electoral process.”

According to the ADC, Osun’s one-week registration exceeded the 275,815 voters added between 2019 and 2023, while the South West zone accounted for an extraordinary 67 per cent of all registrations nationwide.

“These fantastic figures suggest either another technical ‘glitch’ in INEC’s digital registration system, or a more troubling possibility of deliberate manipulation of data,” the party warned.

It added that Osun, Lagos, and Ogun States together made up 54.2 per cent of all pre-registrations in the country, while five other states, including Ebonyi, Imo, and Adamawa, accounted for just 0.2 per cent.

The ADC urged INEC to conduct a forensic audit of the first-week data and publish a full breakdown of physical and online registrations.

“We must be clear: the voter register is the foundation upon which the entire electoral process rests. If the foundation is compromised, it brings the integrity of the elections into question,” Abdullahi said.

The party further called on opposition groups, election monitors, and civil society to demand transparency from the electoral body.