INEC: New Voters Registrations Hit 10.4 million

Osaretin Balogban

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) disclosed that the registrations of Nigerians in the Continuous Voters Registration hit 10.4 million.

The commission also stated that a total of 11 million registrants had their registration completed as of Tuesday.

It was also revealed that 3.3 million of the registrants requested their registration online while 7.6 million registrants went for physical registration.

The commission also gave a gender analysis of registrants as 5,453,071 males and 5,558,048 females out of which 80,101 are persons with disabilities, completed their registration.

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INEC also revealed the age distribution of people who requested for registration, stating that 7,828,570 were youth, 2,192,897 were middle-aged, 871,690 were elderly and 117, 962 of the registrants were old.

The Commission also said it received over 28.4 million applications which include voter transfer, requests for replacement of Permanent Voter Cards, updates of voter information records, etc.

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