INVESTIGATION: S'East least in new PVC registration update as INEC ends exercise June 30

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INVESTIGATION: S’East least in new PVC registration update as INEC ends exercise June 30

By Steve Oko.

Statistics available at the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, indicates that the South East zone still has the lowest number of registered voters as INEC closes the on-going Continuous Voter Registration, CVR, exercise on June 30.

Findings by Wawa News Global shows that South East is at the bottom of the INEC table with only 550,771 new registered voters since after the 2019 general election, thus bringing the total number of registered voters in the zone to 10,574, 956 as at May 30, 2022.

South West has 1,235,610 new registered voters bringing the total number of registered voters in the zone to 17,419,669.

With 1,524,415 voters, the South South zone has the highest number of new registered voters in the country since after 2019, thus bringing the total number of registered voters in the zone to 14, 226,471.

North East posted 836,204 new registered voters to bring the total number of registered voters in the zone to 12,025,167.

North West has 1,223,179 new registered voters bringing the zone to 21,215,186 registered voters which is the highest in the country.

North Central recorded 1,107,107 new registered voters to bring the total figure for the zone to 14,388,386 registered voters.

The total number of new registered voters in the the entire Southern Nigeria is 3,310,796; while the North has a total of 3,166,490 new registered voters.

Political watchers believe that the low number of registered voters plus voter apathy in the South East, pose grave danger to the quest for the Nigeria President of Igbo extraction in 2023.

To save the situation, State Governments in the zone and other critical stakeholders should mobilise eligible voters in the South East who do not yet have their PVC to get the vital document before the June 30 deadline.

Below are the tabular representation of the figures as at May 16,2022.

Table1: Summary of Registered Voters for South East
States	2019 Registered Voters	New Registrations as at May 16, 2022	Total Registered Voters so far
Abia	1,932,892	124,192	2,057,084
Anambra	2,447,996	156,706	2,604,702
Ebonyi	1,459,933	118,337	1,578,270
Enugu	1,944,016	65,009	2,009025
Imo	2,272,293	53,582	2,280811
Total	10,057,130	517,826	10,574,956

Table 2: Summary of Zonal Registered Voters
Zone	2019 Registered Voters	New Registrations as at May 16, 2022	Total Registered Voters so far
North West	20,158,100	1,057,086	21,215,186
South West	16, 292,212	1,127,457	17,419,669
North Central	13,366,070	1,022,316	14,388,386
South South	12,841,279	1,385,192	14,226,471
North East	11,289,293	735,874	12,025,167
South East	10,057,130	517,826	10,574,956
Total	84,004,084	5,845,751	89,849,835

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