{"id":136320,"date":"2022-01-18T16:15:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=136320"},"modified":"2022-01-18T16:15:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:15:48","slug":"delta-takes-the-lead-as-inec-receives-over-5m-applications-for-voter-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/18\/delta-takes-the-lead-as-inec-receives-over-5m-applications-for-voter-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta takes the lead as INEC receives over 5m applications for voter registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that it received over five million applications on the online portal for the continuous voter registeration (CVR) exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the commission in June launched a portal where Nigerians<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0can register or request to update their voter information before they complete the process physically at designated centres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">According to data released by the commission on Monday,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">the number of new registrants has risen to 5,027,204.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The data shows that Delta state is in the lead with 372,597 registrations, followed by Bayelsa with 309,385 and Edo with 244,027 registrations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The electoral body gave the number of those who had completed their online and physical registration as 2,563,068. It said out of this number, 1,292,823 are male, while 1,270,245 are female.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">INEC said youths \u2014 between 18 and 35 \u2014 constitute the highest number of completed registrations with a number of 1,783,313.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/18\/inec-blames-delay-in-release-of-2023-timetable-on-non-passage-of-electoral-amendment-bill\/\">INEC<\/a> had said both the online pre-registration and physical registration will subsist simultaneously until the CVR exercise is suspended on June 30, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The voter registration exercise has, however, been suspended in the federal capital territory (FCT), in view of the area council election coming up on February 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that it received over five million applications on the online portal for the continuous voter registeration (CVR) exercise. 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