The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Wednesday, announced that the voter register had swollen up to 93.5m.
Ekiti State remained at the bottom with 986,314 registered voters.
“The 9,518,188 new voters have been added to the existing register of 84,004,084 voters. The preliminary register of voters in Nigeria now stands at 93,522,272.’’ Yakubu said, “Accordingly, in the next few days, the Commission will print 9,352,228 pages of the register. The hard copy will be displayed for each of the 8,809 Registration Areas and 774 local government areas nationwide while the entire register will be published on our website for claims and objections as required by law.
“After a rigorous cleaning-up of the data using the Automated Biometric Identification System, a total of 2,780,756 were identified as ineligible registrants and invalidated from the record, among them double/multiple registrants, under-aged persons and outright fake registrations that fail to meet our business rules. Consequently, the number of valid registrations is 9,518,188.”