INEC reports over 4.4m online voter pre-registrations in 4 weeks

By Omeiza Ajayi

ABUJA: The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has announced that implicit 4.4 cardinal Nigerians person pre-registered online successful the ongoing nationwide elector registration exercise.

According to the latest update released by the Commission connected Monday, a full of 4,445,505 Nigerians completed their online pre-registration arsenic of Sunday, September 14, 2025 – conscionable 4 weeks aft the workout commenced connected August 18.

National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, who signed the statement, reaffirmed the Commission’s committedness to ensuring seamless and inclusive elector registration up of the 2027 wide elections.

A breakdown of the figures shows that 2,141,294 (48.17%) are antheral and 2,304,211 (51.83%) are female. The bulk of registrants, 2,924,643 (65.79%), autumn wrong the younker bracket of 18–34 years, portion 1,112,344 (25.02%) identified arsenic students.

INEC besides revealed that the full fig of Nigerians who person completed their elector registration, combining some online pre-registration and in-person capture, stood astatine 509,929 arsenic of Friday, September 12. Of this figure, 229,758 (45.06%) are antheral and 280,171 (54.94%) are female. Similarly, young radical betwixt the ages of 18 and 34 accounted for 378,132 (74.15%), portion students made up 196,529 (38.54%) of the total.

The Commission stated that a elaborate organisation of the registration statistic by state, gender, age, occupation, and disablement has been uploaded to its authoritative website and different platforms for nationalist access.

On developments successful the Federal Capital Territory FCT, INEC noted that online elector pre-registration successful Abuja would extremity connected Monday, September 15, portion in-person registration volition proceed for the adjacent 2 weeks astatine designated centres.

From September 29 to October 8, registration volition beryllium devolved to each 62 wards crossed the FCT, with elaborate addresses of centres already published connected authoritative platforms.

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