Section 13 Electoral Act 2026

Section 13 of the Nigerian Electoral Act 2026 is about Transfer of registered voters. It provides as follows:

(1) Any person who before the election is resident in a constituency other than the
one in which he or she was registered may apply to the Resident Electoral Commissioner of the State where he or she is currently resident for his or her
name to be entered on the Transferred Voters List for the constituency.

(2) An application under subsection (1) shall be accompanied by a copy of the
applicant’s voters’ card and shall be made not later than 90 days before the date
of an election in the constituency where the applicant is resident.

(3) The Resident Electoral Commissioner to whom an application is made under this section shall cause the applicant’s name to be entered in the Transferred Voters’ List if he or she is satisfied that the applicant is resident in a polling area in the constituency and is registered in another constituency.

(4) Whenever an electoral officer on the direction of the Resident Electoral Commissioner enters the name of any person on the Transferred Voters’ List for his or her constituency, he or she shall —

(a) assign that person to a polling station or a polling area in his or her constituency and indicate in the list the polling area or polling station to which that person is assigned;
(b) issue the person with a new voters’ card and retrieve his or her previous voter’s card; and

(c) 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 and upon receipt of this entry, that electoral officer shall delete the name from the voters’ list.

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