The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC says fresh registration in the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration now about 9.23 million as of Monday, May 16.
INEC announced this in its weekly update on Quarter four, week five, released in Abuja, adding that over 5.845 million registrants had completed their registrations, of which about 2.584 were done online and more than 3.261 million through physical registration.
The Commission also said the update further showed that 2,903,003 of registrants who completed their registration were male, while 2,942,748 were female. 48,252 were Persons with Disabilities, PWDs. The age distribution of the figure that completed their registration revealed that 4,045,520 were youths.
INEC also stated that, so far, it had received over 16.858 million applications, including those for voter transfer, requests for replacement of Permanent Voter Cards, update of voter information records, amongst others.
