Ahead of the September 21 governorship election in Edo state, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC said it has registered 119,206 new voters for the state.
Accordingly, the commission also registered 58,708 voters for the November 16 Governorship election in Ondo state.
INEC National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun disclosed this in a statement issued Monday in Abuja.
He said the figures were arrived at following the cleaning up of the raw field data using the Automated Biometric Identification System ABIS. The raw data were obtained from the now concluded voter registration exercise.
He said; “The number of new voters for Edo State is 119,206 and 58,708 for Ondo State. These figures do not include the 8,847 applications for transfer into Edo State and the 3,132 into Ondo State from other States of the Federation. Similarly, they do not include applications for transfer within the two States because they are already captured on the register of voters.
“The figures of the new voters and inter-State transfers are being integrated into the existing register. In the next few days, the Commission will release the comprehensive and final register of voters to be used for the 2024 Governorship elections for each of the two States.
“Meanwhile, the analysis of new voters for Edo and Ondo States, indicating their distribution by Local Government Areas, gender, age, occupation and disability has been uploaded to our website and social media platforms for public information”.
