With the 2023 general elections about four months away, the Independent National Election Commission (INEC), yesterday, declared that 93.5 million Nigerians will participate in the exercise.
• N’West leads with 22m voters, S’West 17m, S’East lowest with 10m• To sanction 23 staff for aiding multiple registrations
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who revealed this during the third quarterly meeting with political parties, said 9,518,188 new voters have been added to the existing register of 84,004,084 voters. The development means 93.5 million Nigerians will determine the fate of candidates in the 2023 presidential election, including Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress , Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party , Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi and 15 others.
The South West, which comprises Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Ekiti and Ondo, has risen from 16.29 million in 2019 to 17.93 million, according to the latest data released by INEC. The number of new registrants from is South West is 1,640,374. The South East, which comprises of five states , recorded the lowest number. As of 2019, the region had 10 million registered voters. This has now risen to 10.9 million, with an addition of 930,987,738 new voters.
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