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2023: INEC Confirms Number Of Registered voters
🔹2023 General Election will hold
as scheduled
🔹INEC not contemplating any
postponement
🔹Election materials for 17 States
delivered
🔹13,868,441 PVCs printed,
delivered to States
🔹Underaged voters, vote buyers
will be arrested, prosecuted
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that a total number of 93.469 million Nigerians will be eligible to vote in the forthcoming general election.
Providing the gender breakdown, the Commission disclosed that while 49,054,162 males will vote, the female figure stood at 44,414,846.
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INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu, who made the disclosure in his keynote address at a consultative meeting with leaders of the 18 registered political parties in Abuja, however, assured that the poll will not be postponed.
A further breakdown shows that while Lagos topped the chart with a whopping 7,060,195, Kano and Kaduna states trailed second with 5,921,370, 4,335,208 respectively, just as Osun state has the least number of voters with 987,647.
Nigerian youths within the age range of 18-34 topped the age group with a total number 37,060,399, 39.65 per cent, middle-aged between 35-49, are 33,413,591, 35.75 per cent, the elderly within the age range of 50-69 constituted 17,700,270, 18.94 per cent and the old within 70 years and above have 5,294,748, about 5.66 per cent.
INEC Chairman Presents New Register of Voters to Political Parties
— INEC Nigeria (@inecnigeria) January 11, 2023
📍Registered Voters now
93,469,008
📍53,264 ineligible voters removed
📍Males – 49,054,162 (52.5%)
📍Females – 44,414,846 (47.5%)
📍PWDs – 85,362 (2021/22 CVR)
📍Youths (18-34): 37,060,399
(39.65%) pic.twitter.com/ayercYnjkp
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