Enugu State is the last with paltry 1, 839 or 0.04 percent new voters, in the ongoing continuous voters’ registration (CVR) exercise of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The four South East states of Enugu, Imo, Abia and Ebonyi, have a combined total of 71,835 new voters.
Anambra State is excluded from the exercise as the state is preparing for governorship election on November 8 this year.
Osun State alone has a total of 552,045 new voters while Lagos State has 488,523 voters.
INEC in the figures released on Monday, said online registrants are 4,445,505 in four weeks since the commencement of the exercise on August 18.
Out of this figure, 2,141,294 (48.17%) are male and 2,304,211 (51.83%) are female.
“In terms of age and occupation, the majority 2,924,643 (65.79%) are between the ages of 18 and 34 while 1,112,344 (25.02%) are students,” INEC said in the statement by Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee Sam Olumekun.
Olumekun stated that the combined figures of the completed online pre-registration and the physical (in-person) registration is 509,929.
He added out of figure, 229,758 (45.06%) are male and 280,171 (54.94%) are female.
“In terms of age and occupation, 378,132 (74.15%) are young people between the ages of 18 and 34 while 196,529 (38.54%) are students,” he stated.
