Youthful population soars as INEC voter registration tops 11 million

Those who still believe that the Nigerian youths are only active politically on social media and will make no significant impact on the 2023 general elections, may need to pay a little attention to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) report on voters’ registration.

Fresh statistics released by INEC on the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) show that no fewer than 11 million new voters have been registered, across the federation.

Out of the total 11,011,119 registrants, 7,828,570 are categorised as youths within the age bracket 18-34 years. This represents 71.1% of the total new registrations.

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Lagos leads the rest of the states in the federation with 508,936 new voters registered, followed by Kano State with 500,207 and Delta with 481,929.

The infographics released on Tuesday by INEC as of 7am, July 25, shows that the South-South is leading the six geo-political zones with 2,255,070 new registrations, followed by the North West with 2,197,607; North Central and Abuja, 2,082,156; South West, 1,841,905; North East, 1,372,712 and South East with 1,261,669.

See infographics below: