The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that its Imo State office has registered 11,839 new voters in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration exercise.
The commission also disclosed that the registration was suspended in Egbema, in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area, due to security concerns.
INEC’s Head of Department, Voter Education and Publicity, in Imo State, Mrs Emmanuella Ben-Opara, made the disclosure while speaking on a live radio programme, The Brief, on Groove FM in Owerri, the Imo State capital, on Thursday.
She said the 11,839 registrants were people who had not previously registered and had probably just attained the age of 18, the constitutional age for voting.
Ben-Opara disclosed that the registration is ongoing across the state, except in Egbema, where there have been reported cases of killings.
However, she added that the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security is active in the state, involving the police and other stakeholders
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