2023: INEC releases list of 93.4 million eligible voters

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The Independent National Electoral Commission has released the final list of voters who will cast ballots in the general elections in 2023.

The northwest and southwest received the lion’s share of the 93.4 million eligible voters, according to the electoral umpire.

The voter register was presented to political party leaders at the INEC headquarters in Abuja by the commission’s chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, The Cable reports.

Breakdown of the details

Number of registered voters in Nigeria – 93.4 million

Objections to the register – 53,000

North-West geopolitical zone – 22,255,562.

South-West – 17,958,966

North-Central – 15,363,731.

South-South – 14,440,714 registered voters

North-East – 12,542,429

South-East -10,907,606

By gender

Men – 49,054,162 (52.5 per cent)

Female voters – 44,414,846 (47.5 per cent).

By states

Lagos – 7,060,195

Kano – 5,921,370

Kaduna – 4,335,208.

Abia – 2,120,808

Adamawa – 2,196,566

Akwa-Ibom – 2,357,418

Anambra – 2,656,437

Bauchi – 2,749,268

Bayelsa – 1,056,862

Benue – 2,777,727

Borno – 2,513,281

Cross River – 1,766,466

Delta – 3,221,697

Ebonyi – 1,597,646

Edo – 2,501,081

Ekiti – 987,647

Enugu – 2,112,793

FCT – 1,570,307

Gombe – 1,575,794

Imo – 2,419,922.

Jigawa – 2,351,298

Katsina – 3,516,719

Kebbi – 2,032,041

Kogi – 1,932,654

Kwara – 1,695,927

Nasarawa – 1,899,244

Niger – 2,698,344

Ogun – 2,688,305

Ondo – 1,991,344

Osun – 1,954,800

Oyo – 3,276,675

Plateau – 2,789,528

Rivers – 3,537,190

Sokoto – 2,172,056

Taraba – 2,022,374

Yobe – 1,485,146

Zamfara – 1,926,870.

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