The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday spoke of plans to update and revise the voter register for the governorship election in Kogi State on December 3.
Mr Kayode Idowu, the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to INEC Chairman Attahiru Jega, dropped the hint during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
Idowu said that the commission intended to conclude the exercise 30 days before the election.
He pointed out that the exercise would not take place in all the 2, 548 polling units in the state, but at ward level.
He identified Kogi as a flash point, saying; “it is a potentially violent terrain’’.
Idowu, however, said the Inter Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security was meeting to address envisaged security challenges.
“The committee had gone to the drawing board and drawn plans that are suited for such difficult terrain,’’ he said.
He said INEC would take advantage of the staggered nature in the conduct of the governorship election in Kogi and some other states next year.
