The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday commenced a five-day Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) across the six Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
The CVR exercise will hold between Jan. 13 and Jan. 17 from 9 a.m. to 4 a.m. daily, ahead of the FCT Area Council elections scheduled for March 19.
A correspondent of The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who monitored the exercise reports that eligible voters came out in large numbers to register at the registration centres.
Mr Segun Adewole, a civil servant, who was at the Government Day Secondary School, Karu, a registration point under the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), commended the INEC officials for conducting the exercise in an orderly manner.
Adewole said that INEC officials also came to the centre early enough.
“ It was an uphill task trying to control the large crowd that came out to register today, especially at the initial stage
“What the INEC staff did was to attend to the first batch of people and give number to the remaining people on the line to be attended to later in order not to make the exercise rowdy,’’ Adewole said.
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