Ndigbo Lagos, the umbrella platform for the Igbo community resident in Lagos State, today issues an urgent and non-partisan call to its members, to Ndi Igbo across Lagos State more broadly, and to Ndi Igbo in every part of Nigeria and in the diaspora: register to vote, verify your existing registration, and collect your Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC) without delay, ahead of the 2027 General Elections.
The Independent National Electoral Commission’s Continuous Voter Registration exercise has been open since April 2026 and closes ahead of the publication of the final voter register on 15 December 2026. The main election date has also moved: the Presidential and National Assembly elections will now hold on Saturday, 16 January 2027 — six weeks earlier than previously expected, and inside the period when many Lagos-resident Igbo families travel home to the South-East for the Christmas and New Year season.
This earlier date, landing squarely inside the festive travel season, makes early action essential rather than optional. Ndi Igbo who wait until the final weeks of the year to register, to verify an existing registration, or to collect a card already printed and sitting uncollected at a Lagos or home-state INEC office, risk being unable to vote at all in January 2027 — not because of any external obstacle placed in their way, but simply because time will have run out.
Ndigbo Lagos states plainly: no single issue facing our community in the run-up to 2027 is as immediately actionable, as free of controversy, or as squarely within our own control as this one. Whatever a person’s political persuasion, whatever party or candidate they eventually choose to support, the first and most basic act of political participation is holding a valid PVC and knowing one’s polling unit. This is true for every Igbo trader, professional, artisan, student, and family — wherever in Lagos, the South-East, or elsewhere they may be — and for every Igbo son or daughter abroad who intends to travel home to vote.
Ndigbo Lagos is not, today, telling anyone who to vote for. It is telling every son and daughter of Igbo extraction, wherever they live, to make sure they can vote at all. A card uncollected is a voice unheard. Ndi Igbo everywhere — in Lagos and beyond — are urged to treat their PVC with the same urgency they would give to any other matter of real consequence to their family’s future, because that is exactly what it is.
Ndigbo Lagos specifically calls on:
• Ndi Igbo — members and non-members alike — in every part of Lagos State where they live, work, or do business, to check their registration status immediately and to register or update their details before the window closes.
• Igbo group leaders across Lagos — town unions, village and community associations, market and trade associations, faith groups, women’s groups, and youth associations — to mobilise their members intensively on this matter between now and December 2026, making PVC registration and collection a standing item at every gathering, service, and meeting they hold.
• First-time voters in particular — young Ndi Igbo coming of age or registering for the first time — to come out without hesitation and register. A first PVC is the beginning of a lifetime of civic participation, and this window will not stay open indefinitely.
• Ndi Igbo in the five South-East states, and in every other part of Nigeria, to do the same in their own communities.
• Igbo sons and daughters in the diaspora who intend to be home in Nigeria in January 2027 to confirm their registration status with family members now, well ahead of travel.
Ndigbo Lagos will be organising its own structured engagement on this matter in the weeks ahead, through town halls, community gatherings, and direct outreach across Lagos. Further details will follow in due course.
Anyone with questions, challenges, or in need of help or assistance with any part of this process is urged to reach out to the Ndigbo Lagos Secretariat through its hotlines, or by email to ndigbo_lagos@yahoo.com — and to report any problems encountered.
For now, the message is simple and urgent: register. Verify. Collect. Do not wait.
Signed:
Major General Obi Abel Umahi, OFR (rtd.)
President-General, Ndigbo Lagos
Chief Chuma Igwe
Secretary-General, Ndigbo Lagos
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About Ndigbo Lagos
Ndigbo Lagos is the registered umbrella platform representing the interests of the Igbo community resident in Lagos State.
