INEC To Relocate CVR Centres Over Osun LG Crisis
The Independent National Electoral Commission in Osun State on Wednesday disclosed that it will relocate registration points for the forthcoming Continuous Voter Registration exercise from local government secretariats currently under lock.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr Mutiu Agboke, disclosed this while speaking during a stakeholders’ meeting in Osogbo, the state capital.
OSUN DEFENDER reports that Osun council secretariats have been shut since February 17, 2025, due to a tussle between the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress over control of the local governments.
The crisis, which led to the death of at least five people, including the chairman of Irewole Local Government, Remi Abass, has kept local government workers away from the councils.
Also, the Federal Government has since February, withheld the local government allocations for the state.
While the APC is claiming that the February 10, 2025, decision of the Court of Appeal, Akure, had returned its candidates elected in the October 15, 2022, local government elections, the PDP on the other hand said the officials who emerged on February 22, 2025, are the authentic council chairmen and councillors.
Agboke, during the meeting, said the affected INEC offices had been identified and would be moved to alternative locations to ensure the CVR proceeds without disruption.
Agboke said, “The CVR will start on the 18th day of August, 2025, with online registration.
“By this, the prospective registrant will visit www.cvr.inecnigeria.org to supply the necessary information about himself or herself.
“Thereafter, he or she will generate a slip to take to INEC local government office within his place of residence.
“Later on the 25th of August 2025, the registrant will visit the local government office for his or her biometrics, i.e the fingerprint and the facial.
“INEC offices located inside local government secretariats are not shut down.
“However, INEC has harvested the number of those local government offices. We want to bring them out of the LG secretariats. We are working on that. Our headquarters had requested their details and we have forwarded them.”
Agboke also announced that activities for the August 8, 2026, Osun governorship election have officially begun, with notices posted in all INEC LG offices.
Party primaries are scheduled between November 24 and December 15, 2025, while submission of candidates’ particulars will run from January 15 to February 9, 2026.
He stated, “This is necessary to enable political parties democratically nominate candidates for the election as required by section 84 of the Electoral Act, 2022. The submission of forms EC9 ( personal particulars of candidates) and EC9B (Names/list of nominated candidates) online at the nomination portal of the commission at 9 am on the 15th day of January, 2026, to 6 pm on the 9th February 2026.
“Access code for the submission of nomination forms shall be available for collection on 15th December, 2025, at the headquarters of the commission. I implore all the political parties and other stakeholders to follow the timetable for the 2026 Governorship Election for Osun State with a view to tracking the various activities contained therein. Copies of the timetable shall be made available to the political parties at this meeting in a short while. The 2026 Governorship election shall be conducted on the 8th day of August, 2026.”
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