INEC records 6m fresh Voters

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says 6,082,639 Nigerians have done fresh registration in the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) as at Monday, February 21.

The Commission, in an update on the CVR Quarter 3, Week 7 released in Abuja, also stated that 3,329,204 Nigerians completed their registration as at the time of the update.

It also noted that 1,373,240 registrants did online while 1,955,964 did physical registration, of which 28,711 of the figure were Persons With Disabilities, PWDs.

It noted that ”the gender distribution shows that 1,675,318 of those that completed their registration were male and 1,653,886 were female of which 2,310,554 were youths between the ages of 18 and 34.”

The INEC also said that ”10,329,413 million registered voters applied for voter transfer, requests for replacement of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) and update of voter information records.”

It added that ”5,506,557 million of the applications were from male voters and 4,822,856 million from female voters, while 100,610 were from PWDS.”

NAN/Mercy Chukwudiebere