Osun and Bayelsa states top the number of fresh registrants in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) newly introduced online Continuous Voter Registration (CVR).
The National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr. Festus Okoye in a statement, said many Nigerians are keying into the online registration exercise, noting that the commission has 2,215,832 new registrants on its new portal.
He said Osun has the highest figure of 365, 412, followed by Bayelsa with 184,059.
Okoye explained that Borno and Yobe have the lowest number of new registrants with 7,307 and 7,946 respectively.
The commission puts the number of fresh registrants on its online registration portal at over two million as at 7 am of Monday, August 23.
The commission in June, commenced the online continuous voter registration exercise where intending voters can register before they complete the process at a designated centre.
The gesture allows new voters to pre-register while those who have registered in the past can access the platform to review their voter registration status.
“The update on the number of registrants who have completed their registration indicates that 234, 516 were males, 195, 802 were females, while 4, 915 were persons with disabilities,” he said.
He also said the commission had within the last eight weeks, received 2, 887,978 applications of which 1,605,220 were from males, 1, 282,758 were from females, while 35, 750 of the applicants were people with disabilities.
“The age distribution showed that 1,877,552 were youths; 686,583 were middle age; 284,389 were elderly; while 39, 454 were old people,” he added.
