2023 Election: South-South, North-West Take Lion Share As Number Of Prospective Voters Soar

2023 election

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has recorded a total of 12, 298, 944 fresh registrants, following the suspension of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise, which started on June 28, 2020.

It would be recalled that INEC had ended the exercise on Sunday 31 July, after a one-month extension from the initial 30 June deadline.

According to a report by INEC, the number of registrants, the 12, 298, 944 new registrants were made up of 6,074,078 males and 6,224,866 females of which 87,083 were people living with disabilities (PWDs) and 8,784,677 youths.

A breakdown of the figure by this news medium indicated that of the fresh 12,298,944 registrants accounted for 6,359,711 people from the North while 5,939,233 people reside in the South, indicating a disparity of 420, 478.

Per geo-political zones, the North-West accounted for the highest registrants with 2,514,273 people, while the South-South followed with 2,458,095 new registrants.

The North-Central trailed the North-West and the South-South with 2,314,368, while the South-West accounted for 2,039,982.

The INEC report also indicated that the North-East accounted for 1,531,070 new registrants, while the South-East had the least completed registration with 1,441,156.

A state-by-state breakdown of the INEC database shows that Lagos and Kano had the highest number of new registrants with 585,620 and 569,103 respectively.

Delta State trailed them with 523, 517 applications, while Yobe and Ekiti states accounted for the lowest registration with 152,414 and 124, 844 applications.

Newsbreak.ng reports that INEC has estimated that the voters’ population could be 90 million for the 2023 elections.

Although the number of registered voters/turnout in the last general elections in Nigeria (2019) was 82,344,107, 28 million total votes was recorded during the presidential poll.