{"id":81666,"date":"2026-01-15T06:10:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81666"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:10:25","slug":"inec-publishes-revised-fct-voter-register-ahead-of-area-council-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/15\/inec-publishes-revised-fct-voter-register-ahead-of-area-council-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC Publishes Revised FCT Voter Register Ahead of Area Council Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has released the revised register of voters for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), ahead of the Area Council Election scheduled for 21 February, with 1,680,315 registered voters.<\/p>\n<p>INEC\u2019s Director of Publicity and Voter Education, Victoria Eta-Messi, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, noting that the updated register was presented to political parties at a stakeholders\u2019 meeting in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Aminu Idris, described the publication as a constitutional requirement and a key milestone in preparations for the election.<\/p>\n<p>Idris said the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR), exercise, which resumed nationwide on 18 August 2025, was suspended in the FCT on 12 October 2025 in line with the Electoral Act, 2022, to allow for the revision of the voter register.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the process included biometric de-duplication, public display of the register for claims and objections, and the compilation of a supplementary voters\u2019 list.<\/p>\n<p>The REC urged political parties and candidates to sustain the peaceful atmosphere in the FCT and intensify voter mobilisation ahead of the poll.<\/p>\n<p>He also announced that Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), for newly registered voters and those who applied for transfers or updates have been delivered to the FCT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has released the revised register of voters for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), ahead of the Area Council Election scheduled for 21 February, with 1,680,315 registered voters. INEC\u2019s Director of Publicity and Voter Education, Victoria Eta-Messi, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, noting that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,192,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-inec","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81668,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81666\/revisions\/81668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}