North takes back seat as Southwest leads in voter registration

THE Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) said it received 542,576 online applications in the first two weeks of the resumption of its Continuous Voter Registration ( CVR), which commenced on June 28, 2020.

INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the announcement at a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners ( REC), yesterday, in Abuja.

According to Yakubu, 456,909 were fresh registrants while 85,667 applied for voter transfer, replacement of Permanent Voter Cards ( PVCS), update of voter information record, among others.

A breakdown of the figure by The Guardian revealed that of the 456,909 fresh registrants, 353,369 came from the South while 103,540 reside in the North, indicating a disparity of 249,829.

Rating the applications according to geo- political zones, The Guardian discovered that so far, the Southwest recorded the highest applicants with 242,738 new registrants. The South- South followed with 79,614 while North Central has 69,072.