The Chairman of INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega made this known at the Commission's quarterly meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners today in Abuja. Jega said that the Commission had gone far in the production of the first phase of the cards.
"By the time the contract is executed, all the registered voters will have their permanent voters card produced.
"It is our hope that all the card will be distributed before the end of the year," Jega said.
He said the cards contained security features such as embedded chips with printed voters' details, photograph, bar code, micro-text, hologram and fingerprints.
"The cards will be electronic in nature and will only used for identification, authentication and for voting to prevent multiple voting and frauds," he said.
There are 73.5 million temporary voters' cards awaiting replacement.
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