{"id":5104,"date":"2025-06-26T14:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T14:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2025-06-26T14:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T14:20:28","slug":"inec-fixes-nationwide-cvr-commencement-on-august-2025-says-bye-election-takes-off-august-15-excludes-riverszamfara-from-august-bye-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/inec-fixes-nationwide-cvr-commencement-on-august-2025-says-bye-election-takes-off-august-15-excludes-riverszamfara-from-august-bye-election\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC Fixes Nationwide CVR\u00a0 commencement\u00a0 on August 2025\u00a0 …Says Bye-election takes-off August 15 …..excludes Rivers,Zamfara from August bye-election\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ahead of 2027 general election,the Independent National Electoral Commission has declared that it will resume Nationwide Continuous Voter Registration as\u00a0 from August 18 2025.<\/p>\n

Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Yakubu Mahmood disclosed this during the second quarterly consultative meeting between the Commission and the registered political parties in the country.<\/p>\n

Recall that Mahmood had on Wednesday at the consultative meeting with\u00a0 the media promised to announced the date for resumption for the exercise in 24 hours.<\/p>\n

Addressing leadership of the various political parties, on Thursday,\u00a0 Mahmood said: \u201cFor the nationwide CVR, the Commission has approved the resumption of the online and in-person registration of voters in all the States of the Federation.<\/p>\n

“The online pre-registration will start on 18th August 2025 while the in-person registration will follow on 25th August 2025. The exercise will be held simultaneously in all our 37 State and FCT offices as well as our 774 Local Government offices nationwide. Detailed schedule of activities will be released shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the issue of bye-election, the\u00a0 Commission he said has\u00a0 fixed Saturday 16th August 2025.<\/p>\n

the INEC boss said: \u201cThe bye-elections will take place in 16 constituencies across 12 States of the country involving a total of 3,553,659 registered voters spread across 32 Local Government Areas, 356 Wards and 6,987 Polling Units.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsequently, Commission has fixed Saturday 16th August 2025 for bye-elections in 16 constituencies across 12 States of the country involving a total of 3,553,659 registered voters spread across 32 Local Government Areas, 356 Wards and 6,987 Polling Units.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that no fewer than 30,451 officials will be deploy for the bye-election.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, the\u00a0 Commission has given reasons for excluding Rivers and Zamfara States from the 16 August 2025 bye-elections.
\nAccording Prof. Mahmood, there will be no bye-election in Khana II State Constituency in Rivers State as a result of the current state of emergency.
\nMahmood also blamed ongoing legal tussle for excluding Talata Mafara South State Constituency in Zamfara State from the August date.<\/p>\n

The INEC boss spoke on Thursday during the second ordinary Consultative meeting between the Commission and leadership of all registered parties in the country.
\nHe said: Consequently, the Commission has fixed Saturday 16th August 2025 for bye-elections in 16 constituencies across 12 States of the country.
\n\u201cHowever, in spite of the declaration of vacancies, bye-elections will not hold in two State constituencies for the time being. These are Khana II State Constituency in Rivers State as a result of the current state of emergency and Talata Mafara South State Constituency in Zamfara State following a legal challenge to the declaration of the seat vacant by the State Assembly.<\/p>\n

Also IPAC National Chairman,Dr Yusuf Mamman Dantalle has\u00a0 urged leaders of political parties to conduct transparent primaries for the upcoming Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Council election.<\/p>\n

“The integrity of the electoral process starts with parties’ primaries where candidates are nominated for various offices. Parties are urged to comply with the provisions of their constitutions for rancour-free exercises and desist from imposition of candidates.<\/p>\n

“IPAC further urges political parties and their candidates to imbibe issue-based campaigns for the 8th November\u00a0 2025, Anambra State governorship election. Politicians and their supporters should eschew politics of bitterness that impedes the nation’s emerging democracy.”<\/div>\n
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Continuing he said, “The Anambra gubernatorial poll provides yet another opportunity for INEC to demonstrate its capacity to conduct a credible election leveraging on effective application of its new technologies through centralised Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance that will enhance decision-making through data-driven insights, risk management, voter engagement, predictive analytics, automation and intelligent safeguards.<\/div>\n
” This will strengthen electoral credibility and integrity, as well as prevent glitches that could erode confidence in elections.”<\/div>\n
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By George Mgbeleke Ahead of 2027 general election,the Independent National Electoral Commission has declared that it will resume Nationwide Continuous Voter Registration as\u00a0 from August 18 2025. Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Yakubu Mahmood disclosed this during the second quarterly consultative meeting between the Commission and the registered political parties in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1846,233,1421,3313,3312,3314,810],"class_list":["post-5104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-application","tag-candidates","tag-effective","tag-imbibe","tag-imposition","tag-leveraging","tag-registration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5105,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions\/5105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}