INEC opened the final voter registration window this morning. The elections are in January 2027. The window closes on July 10. After that, it's done.

Nigeria's final phase of Continuous Voter Registration began nationwide today, May 11. INEC describes this as the third and final phase before the 2027 general elections. The presidential election is fixed for early 2027. If you're not registered by July 10, you don't vote.

This means something specific for a large number of Nigerians. Those who turned 18 since the last registration window. Those who moved and never transferred their polling unit. Those who lost their PVC and haven't replaced it. Those who registered years ago under a name or address that no longer matches their ID. All of them have sixty days.

You can start the process online at cvr.inecnigeria.org before completing biometric capture in person at your nearest INEC office. The second phase, which ran from January to April this year, recorded 3.7 million completed registrations. This final phase is expected to run bigger.

The harder question isn't logistical. It's whether Nigerians who watched the 2019 and 2023 elections play out the way they did still believe that registration leads anywhere. The 2023 election produced the highest number of registered voters in Nigerian history and a result that went to the Supreme Court. The platform Peter Obi ran on in 2023 no longer exists. He's in a new party. The same people who asked Nigerians to register in their millions are asking them to do it again.

Sixty days is enough time to register. Whether it's enough time to rebuild the case for participating is a different question.