Updated: 93.4 million people registered to vote, says INEC

• Lagos 7.06 million, Kano 5.9 million
• All ineligible voters removed from the register

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says there are 93.4 million registered voters in Nigeria.

Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, announced this on Wednesday at a meeting with political parties at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja, just as he declared that the election would hold as scheduled.

He presented the voters’ register to the political parties in accordance with the electoral act.

He said the voters’ register now contains 93,469,008 registered Nigerians eligible to vote in the forthcoming elections.

Lagos, according to him, leads with 7,060,195 voters, followed by Kano with 5,921,370, and Kaduna with 4,335,208.

The number of male voters stands at 49,054,162, while female voters are 44,414,846.

Also, youths between 18 and 34 make up the majority with 37,060,399, representing 39.66 per cent of the voters.

Students lead by occupation with 26,027,481 voters.

Meanwhile, the INEC boss said it had removed names all ineligible people from the register.

In November 2022, the commission published the preliminary register of voters across LGAs and on its website.
The commission said it displayed the register for eligible voters to confirm their details, as well as for Nigerians to report ineligible persons captured in the register.
Subsequently, Nigerians took to social media with snapshots of sections of the register showing pictures of persons who appeared to be below the age of 18.
Some of the snapshots posted also showed what appeared to be multiple registrations in some states.
Speaking on Wednesday, Yakubu said the commission received more than 53,000 objections to the register, after which the ineligible voters were removed.
“After the cleaning up of the data from the last continuous voter registration (CVR) exercise, 9,518,188 new voters were added to the previous register, resulting in the preliminary register of 93,522,272, which was presented to Nigerians for claims and objections as required by law,” he said.
He also said, “At the end of the period for claims and objections by citizens, the commission received 53,264 objections from Nigerians to the prevalence of ineligible persons on the register by virtue of age, citizenship, or death.
“These names have been verified and removed from the register.”