INEC Denies Migrating Voters In FCT Polls

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INEC's Acting Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Wilfred Ifogah, said the commission did not migrate voters to different polling units during the FCT council elections. Instead, INEC created split polling units in large centres with over 1,250 registered voters to reduce congestion, locating them a few metres from the original units. The commission displayed voter registers at the split units four days before the election and sent reminder messages on Feb 18‑21 to inform voters of the new locations. According to INEC's dashboard, 45% of polling units opened at 8:30 am and all were open by 10 am on election day, indicating operational readiness.

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