Nigeria, Oct. 26 -- The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has delisted 2,780,756 registrants from the millions of new voters who registered during the just concluded Continuous Voters Registration (CVR).

This was disclosed by the commission's chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, on Wednesday, at a quarterly meeting with leaders of political parties in Abuja.

A total of 12,298,944 registrants were initially declared to have successfully completed the exercise which lasted between June 2021 and July 2022.

However, Mr Yakubu, at the meeting, confirmed that a total of 2,780,756 (22.6%) of the 12 million registrants have been declared invalid due to infractions such as double registration, and underage registrants, among others....