July 7, 2021

Osun state has recorded the highest number of freshly registered voters in he ongoing online Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise, with 67,772 applications.

The Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr. Festus Okoye disclosed this in an update on the CVR issued on Tuesday, in Abuja as the Commission met on Tuesday to discuss the exercise, which commenced on June 28.

He added that Lagos is 2nd on the list with 30,338 followed by FCT with 12,160.

“States with the least fresh voter applications, within the period, were Ebonyi with 350, Kebbi 624, Abia 626 and Jigawa with 679”.

“The distribution of the figure by gender, according to INEC, had indicated that of the total registered, males constituted 166, 712 of the number while 93,001 were female”.

“The age distribution for the first week also showed that the number of newly registered youth (18 to 34 years) was 175,8047; middle age (34 to 49 years) is 64,141; the elderly ( 50 to 69 years) is 17,644; while the old (70 years and above) was 2,079”.

“The occupation distribution included artisans-15,414; Business-44,478; civil servants-11,022; farming/fishing-7,720 housewives-2,516, traders-18,865; public servants-7,269; students-66,143 and others-83,283”.

He however noted that 203,497 eligible Nigerians had completed online pre-registration as fresh voters as at 7a.m on July 5.