Politics
By Anthony Isibor.
THE weekly update of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Continuous Voters Register, CVR, for Quarter 3, Week 2, released on Monday, January 17, 2022, has shown an increase in the number of registrants.
According to the report, which was published on INEC’s website on Monday, January 17, the fresh registrants of 5,027,204 show an increase from the 4,883,658 registrants recorded in the 3rd Quarter of week 1.
The new figure is a combined total of 1,783,313 youths within the age of 18- 34 years, 530,452 persons of middle age within 35 to 49 years, another 218,710 elderly persons within 50 to 69 years old, as well as 30,593 old persons within 70 years and above.
It also includes 2,563,068 persons with both completed online and physical registration with 1,054,501 online and 1,508,567 physical registration.
Similarly,1,292,823 male and 1,270,245 female have completed their registration.
In addition, the number of persons living with disability with completed registration also increased from 23,342 in week 1 to 24,129 in week 2.
Realnews reports that the CVR exercise which is published every week on INEC’s website began in June 2021, to provide registration opportunities for Nigerian citizens who have attained the age of 18 and have never registered before, qualified citizens who for some reason or another did not register in previous elections and citizens who registered but their names were not found on the register.
– Jan. 18, 2022 @ 17:07 GMT |
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Tags: Independent National Electoral Commission
