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CVR: Fresh registration hits 8.56m

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says fresh registration in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) has hit 8,564,512, as of 7am on Monday, April 25.

INEC disclosed this in a CVR update on quarter four, week two, released by the commission on Monday night.

The commission also disclosed that 5,111,899 registrants had completed their registrations with 2,228,913 online and 2,882,986 through physical registration.

According to the commission, the gender breakdown of the registrants that have completed their registration comprised 2,537,932 males and 2,573,967 females.

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The released statistics also indicated that 3,534,837 of the figure are youths, while 43,153 are Persons With Disabilities (PWDs).

The update also revealed that as of 7am on Monday, INEC had received 15,071,668 applications for voter transfer, requests for replacement of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), update of voter information record, among others.

It added that 7,957,756 of the applications were received from males and 7,113,912 from females, of which 4,120,254 of the applications were from students and 142,807 from PWDs.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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