INEC states that 40% Of Newly Registered Voters Are Students
Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman, mentioned that 40% Of Newly registered voters are students. On Wednesday, he said 76% of the newly registered are young people and it is out of these that 40 percent happened to be students.
During the Third Quarterly Meeting with political parties for the year 2022, he spoke about this issue. The meeting was held at the INEC Conference Room in Abuja.
He mentioned that 9,518,188 new voters have been added to the list or register of the 84,004,084 voters that were existing before now. The registered number of voters in Nigeria is now 93,522,272. This is the preliminary register.
He added that after the entire registration process, 12.2 million Nigerians completed the result exercise successfully. He added that this process was very robust.
After this long process of data cleaning, in which they made use of the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS), they found out a total of 2,780,756 ( which is 22.6%) were noted to be ineligible registrants and they were removed from the record.
Reasons for them being ineligible include the fact that there were underaged registrants, some Registered as multiple persons and there were also fake registrations.
All these brought the number of valid registrations down to 9,518,188.
He also mentioned in addition that 76.5% which is about 7.2 million voters are aged between 18-34 years. This is in terms of demographic distribution.
The female population is more than the male with a total of 4.8 million which is 50.82% while males total 4.6 million which is 49.18%. Also 3.8 million (40.8%) are students in terms of occupation.
Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman, mentioned that 40% Of Newly registered voters are students. On Wednesday, he said 76% of the newly registered are young people and it is out of these that 40 percent happened to be students.
During the Third Quarterly Meeting with political parties for the year 2022, he spoke about this issue. The meeting was held at the INEC Conference Room in Abuja.
He mentioned that 9,518,188 new voters have been added to the list or register of the 84,004,084 voters that were existing before now. The registered number of voters in Nigeria is now 93,522,272. This is the preliminary register.
He added that after the entire registration process, 12.2 million Nigerians completed the result exercise successfully. He added that this process was very robust.
After this long process of data cleaning, in which they made use of the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS), they found out a total of 2,780,756 ( which is 22.6%) were noted to be ineligible registrants and they were removed from the record.
Reasons for them being ineligible include the fact that there were underaged registrants, some Registered as multiple persons and there were also fake registrations.
All these brought the number of valid registrations down to 9,518,188.
He also mentioned in addition that 76.5% which is about 7.2 million voters are aged between 18-34 years. This is in terms of demographic distribution.
The female population is more than the male with a total of 4.8 million which is 50.82% while males total 4.6 million which is 49.18%. Also 3.8 million (40.8%) are students in terms of occupation.