…Youths account for 58%
The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), has disclosed that the on-going voter registration exercise across the nation has recorded a total of over 10 million voters.
According to an update of current registered voters, the Commission said that 10,487,972 Nigerians have registered for the Permanent Voters Card (PVC).
Giving a breakdown of the registration of voters, INEC said that those that have completed their registration stood at 8,631,696, comprising 3,250,449 that registered online, and 5,381,247 that did physical registration.
According to the data posted by INEC, 4,292,690 of the registrants are male, while 4,339,006 are female. People with disability (PWDs) are 67,171.
The youths consist of the highest number of registrants with 6,081,456, which is about 58% of those so far registered.
According to occupational distribution, artisan registrants are put at 497,179, while farmers and fishers are 1,104,549, and those on business categories are 1,578,837.
For the public servants, the number of registrants is 92,273 and the civil servants are 274,961, while housewives who have registered were put at 1,005,137.
The students are the highest registrants so far, with 3,084,921. The traders who have registered are 500,152, while others are 493,684.
According to the INEC data, the registrants among those above 70 years and above are 97,279, while the gender data showed that 4,292,690 are male, while 4,339,006 are female. Those middle-aged between 35 to 49 years are 1,748,993.
All these registrants, INEC said, was as of Monday, June 27.
The exercise is expected to end on June 30; however, the INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, at the weekend, at the close of the musical concert to sensitise and mobilise more registrants, said that the exercise will continue until when all those willing to be registered are captured in the on-going voters exercise.
