As of June 26, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) reported that 1,565,873 Nigerians had successfully registered for the ongoing Phase III Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) drive.
According to the commission’s findings, 620,933 registrants completed online pre-registration, while 944,940 registered physically across the country.
However, the commission stated “that the statistics remained preliminary, pending a comprehensive data clean-up during the scheduled period for public claims and objections, which would be followed by the deployment of the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS)” .
Kano had the greatest number of registrations (118,207), followed by Lagos (78,360) and Delta (76,395).
The commission further stated that “voter registration was temporarily suspended in Ekiti and Osun states in line with provisions of the Electoral Act ahead of governorship elections”.
Women accounted for 821,276 registrants, or 52.45% of the total, while men made up 744,597, or 47.5%.
Young adults aged 18 to 34 dominated the exercise, accounting for 1,082,985 registrations, with students making up the largest occupational category with 384,093 registrants. INEC also recorded 18,919 registrations from people with disabilities (PWDs).