68.8m voters registered by INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday said that it registered 68, 833, 476 voters for this year’s general elections in Abuja, and has also cleared 14 presidential candidates for the presidential election, 739 candidates for the Senate while 1780 candidates are for the Federal House of Representatives election. It also said that schools would be closed few days to the elections to allow those that would be used for the election duties time to do so.

INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega told a news conference that the action was in line with the requirements of the relevant laws which stipulate that the list should be made public 30 days to the polls. He said the names had been sent to the political parties and published on their website.

Jega, however, added that the names of the candidates cleared for the governorship and state Houses of Assembly would be published by the 27th of January, 2015. Read full report here