Voter’s Card

Verify a customer’s identity using their Voter Identification Number (VIN) through the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This service validates the VIN provided and returns the customer’s voter record details for identity confirmation.

USE CASE

Voter’s Card (VIN) verification can be used to confirm a customer’s identity using their Voter Identification Number issued by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Businesses can use this service to:

Verify customer identity during onboarding and KYC checks
Cross-check identities where other government IDs are unavailable
Reduce impersonation and identity fraud using official voter records
Retrieve verified voter details for compliance and audit purposes

This is especially useful for financial institutions, civic platforms, telecoms, NGOs, and any organization requiring trusted identity verification within Nigeria.

To verify Voter's card

{{baseUrl}}/v1/ng/identities/vin/{vin}

Path Parameter

Parameters	Type	Description
vin (REQUIRED)	string	Voter Identification Number

Request Body

Parameters	Type	Description
firstname (REQUIRED)	string	First Name
lastname (REQUIRED)	string	Last Name
dob (REQUIRED)	datestring	Date Of Birth(YYYY-MM-DD)
gender (OPTIONAL)	string	Gender

This endpoint will return the bio-data information captured.To conduct a test

Response Sample

{
    "id": 191,
    "applicant": {
        "firstname": "John",
        "lastname": "Doe",
        "dob": "1992-06-10"
    },
    "summary": {
        "voters_card_check": {
            "status": "EXACT_MATCH",
            "fieldMatches": {
                "firstname": true,
                "lastname": true,
                "dob": false
            }
        }
    },
    "status": {
        "state": "complete",
        "status": "verified"
    },
    "insight": [  // detail of other organisations that have checked this same ID recently
        {
            "serviceCategory": "Commercial Banks",
            "insightCount": 1,
            "timeframeInMonths": 12
        },
        {
            "serviceCategory": "Digital Bank",
            "insightCount": 1,
            "timeframeInMonths": 12
        }
    ],
    "voters_card": {
        "fullname":"John Doe",
        "vin": "90F5**********72",
        "gender": "male",
        "occupation": "STUDENT",
        "pollingUnitCode": "12/*****/011",
        "firstName": "John",
        "lastName": "Doe"
    }
}

Updated 16 days ago