The ranking placed Nigeria in 186th position, only after Haiti, among 187 countries of the world.
Nigeria is the second country in the world with the lowest voter turnout, worse than war-ravaged Afghanistan and Libya, a new ranking by Picodi has shown.
It further revealed that of the 93.4 million registered voters this year, 87.2 million people collected their Permanent Voters Card and the total number of actual voters on election day was only 24.9 million.Another analysis by this newspaper revealed that all the 18 candidates in Nigeria’s February elections received only 27.55 per cent of the total eligible votes.Meanwhile, the new ranking by Picodi revealed that Nigeria’s average voter turnout in the last three election cycles is 29.
Other countries in the top spot include: Singapore , Ethiopia , Turkmenistan Equatorial Guinea and Nauru . “In situations where elections had two rounds, we calculated the average based on the turnout in both rounds.”
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