• Lagos tops list of INEC 93m voters • 39.65% are Youths • Perish thought of election postponement, Yakubu urges Nigerians
“the Presidential and National Assembly elections will hold on Saturday 25th February 2023”
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared that a total number of 93,469,008 eligible voters would participate in February and March general elections.
The presidential and National Assemblies elections will hold on February 25, in 36 states, the Federal Capital Territory, 109 senatorial districts and 360 federal constituencies.
The governorship and state assemblies would be conducted in 28 states and 993 State assemblies on March 11, 2023.
Chairman of the Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu made the disclosure on Wednesday while presenting the voters register to the leadership of the 18 political parties fielding candidates in the general elections.
EGALITARIAN VOICE checks revealed that South-West state of Lagos tops the statistics with a voting population of 7,060,195, followed by North West state of Kano with 5,921,370 and another fNorth West state, Kaduna with 4,335,208 voting population.
Rivers State in the South-South geo-political zone takes the fourth position in the voters distribution with 3,537,190 voting population.
Further checks revealed that age group between the ages of 18 and 34 constitutes the largest voting population with 37,060,399, which is 39.65% of the eligible voters, trailed by middle-aged persons between the ages of 35 and 49 which has 33,413,591, 35.75% of eligible voters for 2023 elections.
Giving a further breakdown, the INEC Chairman disclosed that gender distribution revealed that males would constitute 52.5% of the Voters with 49,054, 162 and females with 44,414,846, which is 47.6% of the eligible registrants and voters in forthcoming general elections.
He said: “Of this cumulative figure, 49,054,162 (52.5%) are male while 44,414,846 (47.5%) are female.
“The distribution by age group shows that 37,060,399 (39.65%) are youth between the ages of 18 and 34; 33,413,591 (35.75%) are middle aged persons between the ages of 35 and 49; 17,700,270 (18.94%) are elderly voters between the ages of 50 and 69 while 5,294,748 (5.66%) are senior citizens aged 70 and above.
