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THE Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday said over one million Nigerians have registered four weeks after the commencement of its online pre-registration exercise which started on June 28, 2021.

INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, said this in a statement, in Abuja.According to him, the detailed distribution of the registrants by age, state/FCT, gender, occupation and disability for week four of the exercise has been uploaded on the commission’s website and social media platforms.

Okoye’s statement read in part, “However, the distribution by age still shows that 740,063 are young Nigerians between the ages of 18 and 34.” “As earlier announced by the commission, physical or in-person registration commenced on July 26 at its 811 State and Local Government Area offices nationwide.

Okoye said, “The exact locations of the designated centres have already been uploaded to our website and social media platforms. For further details, citizens are encouraged to contact our state offices through the dedicated telephone numbers provided in the uploaded publication.

 

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The chairman of my community organised free registration for everyone. I love to see it. A polling unit has been created for the community. People are eager to vote this time.

And some mumu sat in a chamber and vote against result been transmitted electronically...

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