INEC revises FCT Voter Register to 1.68 million ahead of February 21 Area Council elections
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Wednesday, January 14, 2026, presented the revised Register of Voters for the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, ahead of the February 21 Area Council Election, reporting a total of 1,680,315 registered voters.
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The announcement was made during a stakeholders’ meeting with political parties in Abuja.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner for the FCT, Malam Aminu Idris, described the revision as a constitutional requirement, explaining that the process followed the nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise that began online on August 18, 2025, and physically on September 29, 2025.
“The revision involved biometric deduplication, display for claims and objections, and compilation of a supplementary list. The revised register now supersedes all previous registers,” Idris said.
The total number of registered voters in the FCT increased from 1,570,307 in 2023 to 1,680,315.
Detailed statistics were shared with political parties during the meeting.
The February 21 elections will fill 62 councillorship seats and six chairmanship positions across the FCT.
Idris also briefed stakeholders on INEC’s preparedness, highlighting the monitoring of party primaries, publication of final candidate lists, campaign monitoring, activation of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), voter education, stakeholder engagement, and collaboration with security agencies through the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES).
He urged political parties and candidates to maintain a peaceful environment and intensify voter mobilisation, while noting that Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, for newly registered voters and those updating records, had been delivered, with the collection date to be announced.
In a related development, INEC has resumed the CVR exercise in Anambra State, previously suspended on July 20, 2025, to clean the voters’ register and distribute PVCs ahead of the November 8, 2025, governorship election.
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Eligible voters can now register, update records, replace lost or damaged PVCs, and transfer voting locations ahead of the 2027 General Election.
