Over 1.5 Million Nigerians register in seven weeks as CVR exercise gains momentum

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said 1,565,873 Nigerians person successfully registered successful the ongoing Phase III Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) workout arsenic of June 26.

According to figures released by the commission, 620,933 registrants completed online pre-registration, portion 944,940 registered physically crossed the country.

The commission, however, said “that the statistic remained preliminary, pending a broad information clean-up during the scheduled play for nationalist claims and objections, which would beryllium followed by the deployment of the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS)”.

State-by-state information showed Kano recorded the highest fig of registrants with 118,207, followed by Lagos with 78,360 and Delta with 76,395.

The committee besides disclosed that “voter registration was temporarily suspended successful Ekiti and Osun states successful enactment with provisions of the Electoral Act up of governorship elections”.

Women accounted for 821,276 registrants, representing 52.45 per cent of the total, portion men made up 744,597 oregon 47.55 per cent.

Young radical aged 18 to 34 dominated the exercise, accounting for 1,082,985 registrations, portion students emerged arsenic the largest occupational radical with 384,093 registrants. INEC besides recorded 18,919 registrations by Pers...