The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has expressed serious concerns over the first-week Permanent Voter Card (PVC) pre-registration figures released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), describing them as “statistically implausible.”
In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the party highlighted what it called glaring anomalies, particularly in Osun State, where nearly 400,000 new registrations were reportedly completed in just seven days—a figure that surpasses the total number of new voters added in the state over the past four years.
According to the ADC, the South West zone alone accounted for 67 percent of all pre-registrations nationwide, while the South East registered just 1,998 new voters during the same period. Three states—Osun, Lagos, and Ogun—contributed more than half of all registrations, while five states in the South East barely recorded any growth, and the entire North East accounted for only 6.1 percent.
The party warned that such figures, whether the result of technical glitches or deliberate manipulation, could undermine confidence in Nigeria’s electoral process. ADC urged INEC to conduct and publish a full forensic audit of the first-week data, including state-by-state breakdowns, server logs, and regional access reports.
“The voter register is the foundation upon which the entire electoral process rests. If the foundation is compromised, it brings the integrity of the elections into question,” the party said, calling on opposition parties, election monitoring groups, and fact-checking organizations to independently verify the data.
The ADC’s intervention comes amid growing scrutiny of INEC’s digital registration system, as Nigerians prepare for upcoming elections and demand transparency to safeguard the democratic process.
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