The total number of registered voters in Nigeria may have risen from 84 million to 96.2 million, reports indicate.
This is according to the latest voter statistics released by the Independent
National Electoral Commission, INEC, which states that 12.2 million voters
registered in the Continuous voter registration that ended on Sunday.
According to INEC, the North-West geopolitical zone, which comprises the
seven states of Sokoto, Zamfara, Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi and Jigawa,
with a total of 22.67 million registered voters, has the highest number of
registered voters.
As of the 2019 elections, the North-West had 20.15 million voters. However,
the latest showed that 2.5 million new voters registered during the recently
concluded continuous voter registration bringing the total number of
registered voters in the zone to 22.67 million.
The South-West, which earlier had 16.29 million registered voters, now has 18.3 million, having added 2, 039, 982 new registered voters. The zone comprises Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Ekiti and Ondo.
In third position is the South-South which comprises Akwa Ibom, Rivers,
Cross River, Bayelsa, Edo and Delta states. The number of registered voters
in the zone has risen from 12.8 million to 15.2 million. The North-Central
which is made up of Nasarawa, Kogi, Benue, Niger, Kwara and Plateau, now
has 14.1 million voters while the North-East which is made up of Yobe,
Borno, Taraba, Adamawa, Bauchi and Gombe, added 1.5 million new voters
to reach 12.8 million registered voters.
The South-East, which is the smallest geopolitical zone, and consists of five
states – Ebonyi, Enugu, Abia, Anambra and Imo – now has 11.49 million
voters while the number of registered voters in the Federal Capital Territory
has increased from 1.3 million to 1.5 million.
