One million Nigerians register as INEC begins physical voter registration

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday said it has received over one million applications within one month of resumption of Continuous Voter Registration (CVR).

This was the commission announced the commencement of the physical registration exercise in its 811 state and local government area offices nationwide.

INEC national commissioner and the chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, who made the disclosure said the number of new registrants has risen to 1,006,661 in the last four weeks.

Okoye, however, revealed that total of 1,135,395 people have used the portal in the past one month,a figure that also included applications submitted by people who are requesting voter transfer, replacement of PVC, or update of voter information record.

He added 740,063 applications representing 73.5 per cent were young Nigerians between the ages of 18 and 34.