CVR: ADC accuses INEC of releasing ‘statistically implausible’ figures for Osun

By Tunde Olamilekan

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has questioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the figures released for the first week of its Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise.

The ADC accused INEC of releasing “statistically implausible” figures, specifically questioning how Osun State recorded more new voter registrations in a single week than it did over the previous four years.

The party in a statement released on Thursday, signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, raised alarm over the figures from the Southwest, which it said account for an extraordinary 67 percent of all pre-registrations nationwide.

Abdullahi noted that the 393,269 new pre-registrations recorded for Osun State in just seven days far exceed the 275,815 new voters registered in the state between 2019 and 2023, a period spanning four years.

“To put this in context, Osun has now supposedly registered more people in seven days than it managed to do in an entire electoral cycle of four years,” the statement read.

The ADC added that, “Even at its highest point of political mobilisation in 2022, Osun has never produced more than 823,124 votes cast in the Governorship Election. Now, by some miracle, nearly 20 percent of all eligible adults in the state have rushed to register. This is not just unusual, it is statistically implausible.”

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