The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says about 2.7 million double registrations were removed from the system from the last Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise conducted by the commission.

The INEC Chairman, Professor Mamoud Yakubu made this known while speaking at a National Endowment for Democracy event in Washington DC in the United States.

Yakubu also stated that the commission will make available the new set of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) by November this year.

The Commission had in September hinted that it had detected several double, multiple, and ineligible registrants, noting that most of the detected double registrants have been invalidated.