2023 General Elections: INEC announces additional six million voters’ registration
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says 6,082,639 Nigerians have registered in the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) as of 7:00 a.m., Monday.
In an update on the CVR Quarter 3, Week 7 released on Monday, INEC also disclosed that 3,329,204 Nigerians completed their registration at the time of the update.
It 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).
The gender distribution showed 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.
It also stated that 10,329,413 million registered voters applied for voter transfer, requests for replacement of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), and voter information records.
There were 5,506,557 million applications from male voters and 4,822,856 million from female voters, while 100,610 were from PWDS.
(NAN)
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