Registered voters hit 84.27 M: INEC.

Barely 162 days to the commencement of 2019 general elections, registered voter population has now hit 84.27 million, according to the latest statistics released by Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The commission also disclosed that the collection of PVCs would continue until one week to the 2019 general elections.

Infographics obtained from the electoral umpire, yesterday, in Abuja showed that over 14.55 million voters were registered in the Continuous Voter Registration, CVR, exercise, which began in April 2017 and ended on August 31, 2018. As at 2015, there were 69,720,350. The new figure of registrants, 14, 551,482 brings the actual figure to a total 84,271,832. Of the new registrants, 7,863,917 are males, while 6,688,214 are females.

With 91 registered political parties, Nigeria’s huge voter population could present a lot of logistical challenges for the electoral umpire during the 2019 general elections. Within the period of the new registration, 869,406 PVCs were collected; transfer requests were put at 769,917, while replacement requests were put at 1,178,793.