The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it has registered 93,469,008 voters for 2023 general elections.
A breakdown indicates men constitute 52.5 percent while women make up 47.5 percent of the total figure.
This was contained in the final list of registered voters released to political parties by the Commission at jts Headquarters in Abuja.
Lagos has 7,060,195 registered voters to top the list while Kano trails with 5,921,370. Ekiti has the least number of voters with 502,251.
Further breakdown showed that North West zone has the highest number of registered voters with 22,255,562 followed by Southwest with 17,958,966 voters.
Presenting the register to the parties, INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, stated that the final register of voters has been compiled.
According to him: “You would recall that for the 2019 general elections, Nigeria had a voter population of 84,004,084. After the cleaning up of the data from the last Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise (June 2021 – July 2022), 9,518,188 new voters were added to the previous register resulting in the preliminary register of 93,522,272 which was presented to Nigerians for claims and objections as required by law.
“At the end of the period for claims and objections by citizens, the Commission received 53,264 objections from Nigerians to the prevalence of ineligible persons on the register by virtue of age, citizenship or death. These names have been verified and removed from the register”.
He added: “Consequently, the register of voters for the 2023 General Election stands at 93,469,008. Of this cumulative figure, 49,054,162 (52.5%) are male while 44,414,846 (47.5%) are female.
“The distribution by age group shows that 37,060,399 (39.65%) are youth between the ages of 18 and 34; 33,413,591 (35.75%) are middle aged persons between the ages of 35 and 49; 17,700,270 (18.94%) are elderly voters between the ages of 50 and 69, while 5,294,748 (5.66%) are senior citizens aged 70 and above.
“In terms of occupational distribution, students constitute the largest category with 26,027,481 (27.8%) of all voters, followed by 14,742,554 (15.8%) Farmers/Fishermen and 13,006,939 (13.9%) housewives. The data on disability was not collected for previous registration.
“However, the cumulative figure of 85,362 persons from the recent CVR indicates that there are 21,150 (24.5%) persons with Albinism; 13,387 (15.7%) with physical impediment and 8,103 (9.5%) are blind”.
STATISTICS ACCORDING TO GEOGRAPHIC ZONES:
North West: 22,255,562
South West: 17,958,966
North Central: 15,363,731
South-South: 14,440,714
North East: 12,542,429
South East: 10,907,606
Total : 93,469,008
FURTHER STATISTICS
Youth (18-34): 37,060,399
Middle-Aged (35-49): 33,413,591
Elderly (50-69): 17,700,270
Old (70+) 5,294,748
Artisan: 4,967,464
Business: 12,457,997
Civil Servant: 5,283,549
Farming/Fishing: 14,742,554
House Wife: 13,006,939
Trading: 7,998,658
Public Servant: 2,376,223
Student: 26,027,481
Others: 5,283,549
