The Independent National Electoral Commission will today, resume the Continuous Voter Registration ahead of the 2023 general elections.

Recall that the commission had created 56, 872 additional polling units across the country.

It had also accredited 31 organizations to observe the CVR, while 20 more applications were being processed.

According to the commission, the registration, which will be carried out continuously for over a year until the third quarter of 2022, will be targeting at least 20 million new voters.

While threatening to prosecute any citizens who provided false information during the exercise, INEC had said it would be deploying 5346 officials to 2673 registration centres

INEC chairman, Prof. MAHMOOD YAKUBU, also said the security of the personnel was very paramount.