Opinion by ChidiOdinkalu: How many voters are there in Nigeria? via thecableng
will return to elect state legislators in 36 states and governors in 28. The numbers that will frame all these contests are now settled. They deserve close attention.
By far the most important figure, however, is the number of registered voters. When Nigeria last voted in a general election in 2019, there were 84,004,084 voters on the electoral register. Through its continuous voter registration , INEC says it captured another 12,298,944 since then. When it ran these entries through its Automatic Biometric Identification System, , INEC discovered that 2,780,756 were ineligible or invalid. So, the register of voters in Nigeria has grown by 9,518,188 or 11.
In 1999, Nigeria’s population was estimated to be 115,766,000. By the time the country voted in 2019, it had risen to 199,039,000, a growth of 83,273,000 or 71%. When INEC announced the number of voters on the register for the 2023 election on January 11, 2022, the population of Nigeria was estimated to be over 219,864,000. In other words, since 1999, Nigeria’s population has grown by over 104,098,000 or 89.92%.
This leads to a second issue: Nigeria’s register of voters has always had invalid voters. The current register of voters in Nigeria dates back to November 2010 when the Attahiru Jega-led INEC set about establishing a credible register of voters for the country. The commission had limited time to authenticate the raw data before the 2011 general election. When the Automatic Fingerprint Identification System finished its work on the 2011 register nearly four years later, INEC invalidated 4.
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