{"id":6650,"date":"2025-08-25T16:24:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=6650"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:24:27","slug":"inec-records-1-37million-eligible-voters-pre-register-in-one-week-as-in-person-registration-begins-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/inec-records-1-37million-eligible-voters-pre-register-in-one-week-as-in-person-registration-begins-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC records 1.37million\u00a0 Eligible Voters Pre-Register in one week ….As In-person Registration begins Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

By George Mgbeleke<\/p>\n

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)on Monday declared that the nationwide online pre-registration of voters which commenced on Monday August 18,2025, has as at Sunday August 24,2025 recorded a total of 1,379 342 Nigerians registered nationwide in just one week.<\/p>\n

In a statement by National Commissioner and Chairman, Information &Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun on Monday said the Commission is glad to publish the first weekly update of the exercise by providing details of the registration by State, gender, age, occupation and disability.
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According to Olumekun, the breakdown of the online pre-registrations shows as follows:”661,846 (47.96%) are male and 717,856 (52.04%) are female. Young people between the ages of 18 and 34 constitute the majority of the registrants with 860,286 (62.37%).<\/p>\n

“In terms of occupation, 374,534 (27.15%) are students while the figure for persons with disability is 27,089 (1.96%). Full details have been published on our website and other official platforms for public information.<\/p>\n

“Meanwhile, physical registration kicks off today in our 811 State and Local Government offices nationwide. This will afford those who prefer the in-person option to register at the centres and those who chose the online pre-registration method to complete their registration.”<\/p>\n

Continuing he said,”again, the Commission appeals to the public that the ongoing voter registration is only open to Nigerian citizens who are at least 18 years old and who are not registered voters.<\/p>\n

” Double or multiple registration is a violation of the law. However, inter-State\/FCT and intra-State\/FCT transfer of voters as well as the replacement of lost or damaged voters cards are allowed during the CVR.”<\/p>\n

The exercise the Commissioner noted will continue for one year until 30th August 2026.<\/p>\n

INEC however,urged all intending registrants not to wait until the deadline approaches when, adding that,”from experience, the registration centres are inundated by eleventh hour registrants amidst appeals for extension of time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By George Mgbeleke The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)on Monday declared that the nationwide online pre-registration of voters which commenced on Monday August 18,2025, has as at Sunday August 24,2025 recorded a total of 1,379 342 Nigerians registered nationwide in just one week. In a statement by National Commissioner and Chairman, Information &Voter Education Committee, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4243,3277,235,4188,4242,810,3877],"class_list":["post-6650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-approaches","tag-deadline","tag-information","tag-pre-registration","tag-registrants","tag-registration","tag-voters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6653,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650\/revisions\/6653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}