The National Electoral Commission (INEC) says a total of 1,609,981 people had registered online as the online pre-registration exercise entered the seventh week.
“As at 7am today (Monday 9th August 2021), the number of online fresh registrants is now 1,609,981 while 195,591 citizens have completed their physical registration,” the commission said in a statement by Festus Okoye, the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee.
Okoye said the detailed distribution of the registrants by state/FCT, gender, occupation, disability and type of registration has been uploaded on the commission’s website and social media platforms.
The commission then appealed to all eligible citizens to seize the opportunity of both the online and in-person processes to register as voters.