INEC alerts Nigerians on fake registration portal

Nigeria’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has raised alarm over fake online registration portal for Continuous Voter Registration, CVR.

INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee,Mr Festus Okoye said the Commission’s attention had been drawn to a post, which was being circulated on the social media, about a website for INEC voter registration “which is different from the INEC CVR Portal.

“The address of the fake portal is https://register.inec-pvc.online/ with shortened URL as https://bit.ly/INEC-PvcReg2021.

“INEC wishes to totally disassociate itself from this website and any activity carried out on it,” he said.

Okoye said that INEC had not accredited any agency or organisation to capture details of intending voters on its behalf.

“The general public is hereby informed that the INEC continuous voter registration online portal remains https://cvr.inecnigeria.org,” the commissioner said.

NAN/Confidence Okwuchi