The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it has recorded 6.2 million online pre-registrations in its ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR), with in-person registration hitting over one million as at Sept. 28.
The commission disclosed this in its regular update on the exercise released yesterday.
According to the week six update on the online pre-registration, a total number of 6,232,673, representing 52.15 per cent of the figure were female, while 2,982,335 representing 47.85 per cent were male.
The statistics also showed that 4,230,715 of the figure were youths between the age of 18 and 34, while 1,565,824 were students; and 137,865 were Persons Living with Disabilities (PWD).
On the completed online and physical registration, the update showed that at the end of week five; 537, 743 from online registrants, and 466,389 in-persons registrants completed their physical registration.
It also showed that of the figure 555,077 representing 55.28 per cent were female, 449,055 representing 44.72 per cent, while 13,987 were PWDs.
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