By Ayodele Oni
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced new figures of registered voters, Preparatory to next year’s general elections.
The Commission stated that fresh registration in the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration hit 10.4 million as at 7 a.m., on Monday, July 25.
In its weekly update on Tuesday, INEC also disclosed that 11 million registrants have completed their registration.
According to the update, 3.3 million of the registrants did online registration, while 7.6 million registrants did physical registration.
The Commission gave the gender breakdown of those that completed their registrations to include 5,453,071 males and 5,558,048 females, out of which 80,101 were People Living with Disabilities.
The age distribution also revealed that 7,828,570 were youth; 2,192,897-middle age, and 871,690 elderly, while 117,962 of the registrants were old.
INEC also said that it has received 28.4 million applications including applications for voter transfer, requests for replacement of Permanent Voter Cards, updates of voter information records.
Continuous voters registration is expected to end on July 31.
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