The state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof. Selina Oko, revealed this in Owerri at the weekend.
According to Oko, the software installed in the Direct Data Capturing (DDC) machines exposed and isolated the affected persons’ names.
“We registered over 1.6 million plus, but we have detected all those who did double registration. Over 11,000 were detected to have double-registered,” he said.
Indeed, INEC chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega had promised that his Commission would remove all dual or double registered names from the voter register.
He said the DDC machines used in the registration had software that could detect the names of those that registered more than once.
In the wake of reported stolen or hijack of the DDC machines, he had warned that anybody found to have registered more than once risked jail term.
However, The Guardian learnt that though the deadline for display of the lists of potential voters had ended, only a few centres actually displayed the registers in Imo State.
At the Imo Concorde Hotel premises and Owerri Girls’ Secondary School, no list was displayed as at yesterday.
But the Imo REC attributed the problems encountered in making the lists public to faulty printing machines.
She had initially assured that the commission would produce and display the lists in all 27 local councils in the state before the deadline expired.
Council chairmen in the state, who were yet to receive the lists of voters for their areas, said that they were in constant touch with INEC officials at the headquarters on the issue.
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