President Buhari Registers For National Identity Card

President Muhammadu Buhari is being captured

 for the national identity management commission’s 

identity card, at the presidential villa in Abuja on Tuesday,

 August 25. With him is the director general of NIMC, Chris Onye.

Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, August 25,  in Abuja, got registered by the officials of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), to enable him to obtain his national identity card. Answering the questions from the State House correspondents after his registration inside the presidential villa, Buhari said the exercise would confirm the country’s population, especially of those aged 18 years and above.


The president said: “I think this exercise is very important as it will confirm our population and those, who are entitled to vote – that is those, who are 18 years and above.  It will complement the exercise of the Permanent Voters Card.

President Buhari gets photographed for an ID card

“So, for those who want their votes to count from whichever party or constituency, they should ensure that they and their families are properly captured, like I have been captured.”

The director general of the NIMC, Chris Onyemenam, in his remarks, said the exercise is a continuous one. He said that additional enrollment centres would be established in all the local government areas of the federation. The director further said that the commission is also planning to open such centres in hospitals, primary schools, and universities.

Buhari briefs the journalists after the registration on August 25, 2015.

Onyemenam said: “So, every enrollment centre that we have established remains open forever; they are like branches of banks. We are taking deliberate steps to ensure that enrollment centres are opened in each local government.

“In collaboration with MDAs, we are now extending it to universities. It will also be extended to primary schools and hospitals. With the cooperation we expect from INEC – we are meeting INEC today – it will be extended even further.“

Onyemenam said that so far, the commission had captured the data of nearly seven million Nigerians.