93 million voters are registered in the North and South Wests.

•Kano has 5,921,370 voters, Kaduna has 4,335,208, and Lagos has 7,060,195.
•INEC rejects delay and rejects reverting to the scheduled election date
The North-West and South-West account for the majority of the 93.4 million eligible voters, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s distribution of the final voter list on Wednesday.

Mahmood Yakubu, the commission’s chairman, presented the voter list during a meeting with political party leaders at the INEC headquarters in Abuja and said that there were 37,060,399 young people who had registered to vote.

To allow eligible voters to validate their information and for Nigerians to denounce ineligible people who were included in the preliminary voter registration for the 774 local government areas, the commission released it on its website in November 2022.

Yakubu said that the commission deleted the ineligible voters from the register after receiving more than 53,000 complaints.

The preliminary record of 93,522,272 was provided to Nigerians for claims and objections as required by law after the data from the most recent continuous voter registration drive was cleaned up, he said.

“The commission received 53,264 complaints from Nigerians over the presence of ineligible individuals on the registry due to age, citizenship, or death at the conclusion of the time for claims and objections by citizens. These names have been checked, and they are no longer listed.

The North-West geopolitical zone has the most registered voters, with 22,255,562, according to the commission’s data.

The North-West has 20,15 million voters as of the 2019 elections. However, the most recent information made public by INEC revealed that during the just finished continuous voter registration, over 2 million new voters registered.

The South-West currently has 17,958,966 registered voters, up from 16,292,212 in 2019 thanks to the addition of 1,666,754 new voters.

The North-Central presently has 15,363,731 registered voters compared to 13,366,070 in 2019.

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The South-East now has 10,907,606 registered voters, up from 10,057,130 in 2019, while the North-East has 12,542,429 voters, up from 11,289, 293 in 2019.

Surprisingly, males make up the majority of voters (49,054,162 or 52.5%), whereas the number of women voters (44,414,846) (47.5 per cent).

Lagos and Kano take the lead
With regard to a further breakdown by state, Lagos had the most registered voters (7,060,195), followed by Kano (5,921,370), and Kaduna (4,335,208).

Other states with similar populations include Abia (2,120,808), Adamawa (2,196,566), Akwa-Ibom (2,357,418), Anambra (2,656,437), Bauchi (2,749,268), Bayelsa (1,056,862), Benue (2,777,727), Borno (2,513,281), Cross River (1,766,466), Delta (3,221,697), Ebonyi (1,

Jigawa has a population of 2,351,298 people, Katsina has 3,516,719 people, Kebbi has 2,032,041 people, Kogi has 1,932,654 people, Kwara has 1,695,927 people, Nasarawa has 1,899,244 people, Niger has 2,698,344 people, Ogun has 2,688,305 people, Ondo has 1,991,344 people, Osun has 1,954,800 people,

In terms of age, there were 37,060,399 adolescents (18–34) enrolled, 33,413,591 adults (35–49), 17,700,270 seniors (50–69), and 5,294,748 senior citizens (70+).

The INEC chairman gave the people of Nigeria his word that the commission had no plans to delay the general elections.

Yakubu also assured that the election timeline had not altered, guaranteeing that the polls will take place as planned.

He said, “A new national register of voters has been prepared after the exhibition of the voter registration worldwide and the resolution of claims and objections by residents.

“In summary, never before in the commission’s recent history have so many aspects of advance planning and execution been completed 44 days before a general election.

“As a result, the commission has no plans to change the election schedule, much alone postpone the general elections.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the gubernatorial and state assembly elections will take place two weeks after the presidential and National Assembly elections, on Saturday, February 25, 2023.

“The security authorities’ constant assurances that our workers, supplies, and procedures would be adequately protected only strengthen our resolve to go forward. The general elections in 2023 will go place on schedule. The commission does not formally support any reports to the contrary.

The complete voter list has been prepared, further demonstrating the commission’s readiness to hold the general elections as planned in 2023. You may remember that Nigeria has 84,004,084 registered voters for the 2019 general elections.

“The preliminary register of 93,522,272 was provided to Nigerians for claims and objections as required by law after the data from the most recent continuous voter registration effort (June 2021–July 2022) was cleaned up. 9,518,188 new voters were added to the previous record.

As a result, there are 93,469,008 people registered to vote in the general election of 2023.
He said that it was organized by state, local government, ward, and voting units and that a floppy copy of the whole register will be sent to each political party.

The breakdown and analysis’s soft copy will soon be posted to the INEC website and social media channels, according to Yakubu.

INEC promises
He added, “I would want to repeat our commitment to transparent, credible, and inclusive 2023 general elections, assuring the country of INEC’s preparedness to execute a transparent and credible exercise.

We will continue to take all necessary measures to safeguard the integrity of the votes cast by people and to address violations, including the arrest and punishment of anyone who seek to continue illicit activity at polling places on election day, whether they are young voters or vote buys.
Yusuf Dantalle, secretary of the Inter-party Advisory Committee, spoke on behalf of the political parties and said that they had decided to work with the commission to guarantee a smooth election process.

The new Electoral Act has made this election unlike any other in our nation’s history, he said, and if permitted, democracy would go far beyond what we have now. It is clear that using BVAS will prevent vote buying.

We are also pleading with political parties to recognize that God is the true owner of power and that he will distribute it as he sees fit.
APC National Secretary Iyiola Omisore, Labour Party National Chairman Julius Abure, Zenith Labour Party Presidential Candidate Dan Nwanyanwu, Social Democratic Party National Chairman Shehu Gabam, and Allied Peoples Movement Presidential Candidate Yusuf Dantalle are among the party leaders present at the meeting.

Auwal Rafsanjani, the chairman of the Transition Monitoring Group, commented on the register and stated that the figures revealed that women’s engagement in politics had suffered a setback. He attributed this to inadequate encouragement and the country’s political violence.
He continued by saying that concerns pertaining to the group will continuously be damaged without the involvement of women at the local and federal levels.

It amply demonstrates how women’s political engagement in Nigeria has endured setbacks. This is because many women are discouraged from participating, even for registration, due to the lack of support and political violence, as you may know. And despite efforts by civic society to mobilize women to participate, political parties have sadly not shown up or pushed to encourage female party members to join in the registration.

“The women’s problem will continue to be eroded if women do not engage in politics at the local, state, and federal levels, and you know that only when women participate will they be able to find the best answer to their issue. In addition, if they are not in danger, our women must make every effort to engage.
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“I believe it is crucial that we foster an environment that allows women to take part in the political evolution of our nation. We must continue to urge women to vote since being registered is the only way to truly vote or be voted.

Akin Osuntokun, the director general of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, told one of our correspondents shortly after the list was made public that the political climate in the nation probably played a role in why more men than women turned out for the continuous voter registration exercise.

“It could be related to the nation’s escalating economic and security difficulties. Women are more susceptible to the terrible status quo than males, according to Osuntokun.

Victor Oye, the national chairman of the APGA, said that there was no way to determine if women were losing interest in the country’s electoral process and suggested that “maybe we need to undertake a research to know why.”

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Alkali said this on Wednesday while addressing media at the National Secretariat of his party in Abuja.

He did, however, add that the NNPP was confident that INEC was ready to hold the general elections on time.
Alkali stated, “We’re aware that several foreign countries raised security warnings. Prof. Abdullahi Zuru, a National Commissioner of INEC, sounded the alarm about mounting insecurity issues that might jeopardize the conduct of the elections. We don’t know what they know, but they didn’t tell the federal government what they did, and that naturally caused friction to rise.

But they ought to have announced their entrance and leaving simultaneously. However, a new administration must be in place by 2023 regardless of the situation. In order to do that, both INEC and the political party leadership must work together.

Additionally, on Wednesday, INEC urged Nigerians to abstain from violence and maintain peace during the upcoming elections so that all competing political parties may be treated equally.

Speaking at the National League of Veteran Journalists’ 2023 annual lecture in Ilorin, Kwara State’s capital, Resident Electoral Commissioner Mallam Attahiru Madami issued the accusation.