The House of Representatives has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to remove fictitious names and those of dead Nigerians from its voters register, describing it as bogus.
Another resolution was that INEC should include voter verification in its continuous voter registration exercise to identify those on the register who are still alive as well as fish out those with fake registration.
The PUNCH had reported that for the geopolitical zones, the North-West is leading, having risen from 20.15m to 22,255,562; followed by the South-West, from 16,292,212 to 17,958,966; North-Central, from 13,366,070 to 15,363,731; South-South, from 12,841,279 to 14,440,714; North-East, from 11,289,293 to 12,542,429; and the South-East, from 10,057,130 to 10,907,606.
In terms of age group, voters who are youths total 37,060,399; middle-aged are 33,413,591; elderly are 17,700,270; and the old are 5,294,748.
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