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The right to vote and, more importantly, the exercise of choosing leaders by the eligible citizens is at the heart of every democracy. For many, the questions on their lips is how to exercise the right to vote if perhaps they have relocated from the place they had first registered, to a place outside the constituency in which they had registered. These set of people will need to transfer his/her registration in order to have access to the polling unit and then vote on the Election Day. As related by Independent National Electoral Commission website; below is the procedure for transferring registration

Steps

Step 1- The person who intends to transfer his registration will write an application to INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner of the State where he is currently residing. Step 2-The applicant will attach his voters card to the application. Step 3-The applicant must apply to the Resident Electoral Commissioner not later than 30 days before the date of an election in the constituency where he is residing. Step 4-The Resident Electoral Commissioner will direct the Electoral Officer of the applicants Local Government Area to enter his name in the transferred voters list. Step 5- The Electoral Officer will assign the applicant to a polling unit in his constituency. Step 6-The Electoral Officer will issue the applicant with a new voters card Step 7-The Electoral officer will retrieve the applicants previous voters card Step 8-He will then send a copy of the entry to the Electoral officer of the constituency where the person whose name has been so entered was originally registered. Step 9-Upon receipt of this entry, that Electoral Officer shall delete the name from his voters list. Note- Apart from State Headquarters Offices of INEC, applicants can also submit their applications at the INEC Office in their Local Government Areas. The applications will be forwarded to the Resident Electoral Commissioner for necessary action.

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This article was first published on 25th April 2018 and updated on September 19th, 2018 at 12:00 pm

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Adepeju Adenuga is a writer (considering where you are reading this, makes perfect sense). She holds a Masters Degree in Literature in English from the University of Lagos.