CVR: Fresh registration reaches 10.4 million nationwide with PWDs’ 87,083 – INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has disclosed that it has recorded Continuous Voter Registrations, CVR of Persons with Disabilities as 87,083 and nationwide 10.4 million respectively before it suspension on July 31.

INEC said this in its CVR Update for Quarter 4, week 16, released on Monday, Aug. 1 in Abuja.

The Commission also said that during the period, 12.2 million registrants completed their registrations of which 3.4 million registered online, while 8.8 million registered through physical registration.

INEC disclosed the gender breakdown of the registrants who completed their registrations to be, 6,074,078 male and 6,224,866 female.

The update also showed that 8,784,677 of the registrants that completed their registrations were youths, 2,430,709 middle aged, 956,017 elderly, 127,541 old persons, while 87,083 were Persons With Disabilities (PWDs).

Also during the period of CVR, the commission received 31,098,013 applications including those for voter transfer, requests for replacement of PVCs, update of voter information record, etc, of which 216,442 was from PWDs.

It gave the gender breakdown of those who applied to be 16,148,645 for male and 14,949,368 from women.

Also breakdown of the completed registration by states showed that Lagos has the highest number of registrants that completed their registration with 585,629 registrants, followed by Kano with 569,103 and Delta with 523,517.
Ekiti has the lowest number of people who completed registration with 124,844, followed by Yobe 152,414, FCT 211,341 and Imo with 213, 270.