The INEC voting register has risen to 93.5 million voters as Lagos, Kano, Kaduna and Rivers lead, the Chairman of the commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on has said.
A breakdown of the voting register revealed that Lagos has 7.57 percent; Kano, 6.34 percent; Kaduna, 4.65 percent; Rivers, 3.77 percent; Katsina, 3.76 percent and Oyo 3.51 percent.
Further analysis indicate that the six states constitute 27.68m (29.59 percent) of the entire voting register.
Lagos, Kano, Kaduna and Rivers states lead with 7,075,192; 5,927,565; 4,345,469 and 3,532,990, respectively. While Katsina has 3,519,260 and Oyo 3,275,045.
Addressing the political parties during their meeting in Abuja, the INEC chairman noted that the majority of the new registrants were young people.
Prof Yakubu said, “In terms of demographic distribution, 7.2mn new voters or 76.5 per cent are young people between 18-34 years while there is a slightly higher number of female (4.8m or 50.82 per cent) than male (4.6m or 49.18 per cent) voters. In terms of occupation, 3.8m (40.8 per cent) are students.
“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.’’
