The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has held a meeting with the leadership at of the 18 political parties at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja.
At the meeting, the first this year, the 2023 voter register was presented to the parties ahead of the elections as required by the 2022 Electoral Act.
The register contained 93,469,008 voters for the 2023 general elections.
The voter distribution also reveals that 44,414,846 registered voters are females, and 49,054,162 are males.
Of the total registered voters, the number of young people between the ages of 18 and 34 stood at 37,060,399, representing 39.65% of total registered voters while the elderly between the ages of 50 and 69 stood at 17,700,270, representing 18.94% of total registered voters.
The INEC chairman said with the presentation of voter register, the commission has successfully implemented 11 out of the 14 activities scheduled for the 2023 general elections.
He however assured that the commission is not contemplating any postponement of the election date.
According to him, every other arrangements are going on smoothly including the distribution.
In attendance at the meeting were leaders of the All Progressives Congress, the Peoples Democratic Party, the Labour Party, and the New Nigeria People’s Party, amongst others.
