By Deborah Hassan
365Daily – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that it did 10. 2 million fresh registration in the Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise.
This was contained in its quarter four, week seven report.
The Commission said 6.5 million registrants have so far completed their registration, out of which 2,928,447 were done online, and 3,615,798 physical registration.
A gender breakdown of the registration revealed that 3,253,441 of the persons were males, while 3,290,804 were females.
Of that number, 53,663 were persons with disabilities, while 4,550,847 were youths.
A total of 18,912,511 applications including those for voter transfer, requests for replacement of Permanent Voter Cards and update of voter information record were received by INEC.
The gender breakdown of the applications indicated that 9,947,320 were by males and 8,965,191 by females, while 168,765 by from persons with disabilities.