CVR: 4.6m Nigerians complete INEC voter registration

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BY MUSA IDRIS UMAR, DECEMBER 14, 2021 | 09:38 AM


The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says fresh registration in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) has hit 4,681,206 as at 7a.m, Monday, Dec. 13.

The commission disclosed this in its Weekly update for Quarter two, Week 10, on the CVR, released on Monday in Abuja.

The commission disclosed that 922,188 registration were done online and 1,306,805 were physical registration.

The update indicated that 1,124,294 of the persons are male while 1,104,699 are female, adding that 21,910 of the figure are Persons Living With Disability.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the update also shows that INEC has received 7,489,666 applications including those for voter transfer, requests for replacement of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), update of voter information record, etc.

The commission disclosed that 4,005,177 of the applications were from male; 3,484,489 from female and 78,415 are people living with disability (PWD).

NAN


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