The commission on Friday started the display of details at local government offices across the country.

The display which would end on September 30 is to allow for claims and objections by Nigerians.

News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, correspondent who visited the INEC office in Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, Karu on Saturday, reports that the register had been displayed at the office.

Mrs Ndidi Okafor, Head, Voter Education and Publicity, INEC FCT, in an interview with NAN confirmed that the details were also being displayed at INEC offices in five other area councils of the FCT.

The INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye, had on Monday, in Abuja, said that Section 19 (1) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended), mandated INEC to publish the register of voters.

Okoye said the section mandated that the register must be displayed for a period of not less than five days and not more than 14 days.

That, he said, was to allow for public scrutiny during which citizens might make claims and objections.

“In compliance with the law, the register of new voters will be displayed in the local government offices of the commission nationwide from Sept. 24 to Sept. 30.

“The aim is to enable citizens to assist the commission by identifying ineligible registrants on the list ahead of the cleaning up of the register before adding the fresh registrants to the current register and the printing of their Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) for future elections.

“For clarity, ineligible registrants include foreigners and Nigerians below the age of 18.”

Okoye urged Nigerians to assist INEC to identify multiple registrants and deceased persons so that they could be removed from the register.

The commission had announced that from the inception of the exercise on July 28, the number of fresh online pre-registrants now stood at 3,165,189 as of Monday 7 a.m.

It also disclosed that within the 12 weeks of the exercise, 1,457,766 Nigerians had applied for voter transfer, replacement of PVCs and update of their voter information records.

It also disclosed that 1,081,947 new registrants had completed their physical registration.

The national commissioner stated that the second quarter of the exercise would begin on October 4, and end on December 20.

Source: NAN

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This is going by the register presented ahead of the 2019 general election by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC , Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on Monday.

However on regional basis, North-West has the highest number  with over 20.2 million while South-West follows with 16.3 million.

North- Central has 13.4 million, South-South has 12.9 million; North-East has 11.3 million and  South-East has a little over 10 million voters.

INEC said it cleared 84,004,084 voters for the forthcoming elections.

That was after carrying out Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) on those who registered during the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR).

The current total figure of 84,004,084  is 15 million more than the 68 million presented in 2015.

Below are the figures of voters in the different states of the federation:

Abia 1,932,892

Adamawa 1,973,083

Akwa Ibom 2,119,727

Anambra 2,447,996

Bauchi 2,462,843

Bayelsa 923,182

Benue 2,480,131

Borno 2,315,956

Cross River 1,527,289

Delta 2,845,274

Ebonyi 1,459,933

Edo 2,210,534

Ekiti 909,967

Enugu 1,944,016

FCT 1,344,856

Gombe 1,394,393

Imo 2,272,293

Jigawa 2,111,106

Kaduna 3,932,492

Kano 5,457,747

Katsina 3,230,230

Kebbi 1,806,231

Kogi 1,646,350

Kwara 1,406,457

Lagos 6.570,291

Nasarawa 1,617,786

Niger 2,390,035

Ogun-2,375,003

Ondo-1,822,346

Osun 1,680,498

Oyo 2,934,107

Plateau 2,480,455

Rivers 3,215,273

Sokoto 1,903,166

Taraba 1,777,105

Yobe 1,365,913

Zamfara 1,717,128

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