UPDATED: INEC registers over 93m voters for 2023 polls

• Published date: 11 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it has registered 93,469,008 voters for 2023 general elections.

A breakdown indicates men constitute 52.5 percent while women make up 47.5 percent of the total figure.

This was contained in the final list of registered voters released to political parties by the Commission at jts Headquarters in Abuja.

Lagos has 7,060,195 registered voters to top the list while Kano trails with 5,921,370. Ekiti has the least number of voters with 502,251.

Further breakdown showed that North West zone has the highest number of registered voters with 22,255,562 followed by Southwest with 17,958,966 voters.

Presenting the register to the parties, INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, stated that the final register of voters has been compiled.

According to him: 'You would recall that for the 2019 general elections, Nigeria had a voter population of 84,004,084. After the cleaning up of the data from the last Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise (June 2021 - July 2022), 9,518,188 new voters were added to the previous register resulting in the preliminary register of 93,522,272 which was presented to Nigerians for claims and objections as required by law.

'At the end of the period for claims and objections by citizens, the Commission received 53,264 objections from Nigerians to the prevalence of ineligible persons on the register by virtue of age, citizenship or death. These names have been verified and removed from the register'.

He added: 'Consequently, the register of voters for the 2023 General Election stands at 93,469,008. Of this cumulative figure, 49,054,162 (52.5%) are male while...