ABUJA — The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says fresh registration in the Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) has hit 10.2 million, noting that 6.5 million applicants have so far completed their registration.
The electoral commission disclosed this in its quarter four, week seven report, released in Abuja on Wednesday.
The latest CVR update dated May 30, reveals that out of the 6.5 million applicants that completed their registration, the youths accounted for 4.5 million.
The youths, who are between the ages of 18 and 34, according to INEC’s data accounted for 69.5% of the total registrations completed online since the beginning of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise.
Out of the 6.5 million, who completed the online registration, INEC says 1.3 million were middle-aged Nigerians between the age of 35 to 49, while 556,572 were elderly people between the ages of 50 to 69.
Older people between the ages of 70 and above also used the online platform to register for voters’ card as 76,186 of them completed their registration.
A gender breakdown of the registration revealed that 3,253,441 of the persons were males, while 3,290,804 were females, of which 53,663 were persons with disabilities and 4,550,847 youths.
The youths’ interest in registering for voter’s cards this year may not be unrelated to various advocacy campaigns by influencers on various social media platforms, particularly, Twitter.
