THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday said it received 3,325,741 applications from the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR).
The CVR exercise resumed on 28 June, 2021, making it nine weeks at the beginning of this week.
Disclosing this in the week 9 update provided by the commission on Monday in Abuja, INEC said the figure included those seeking voter transfers, requests for replacement of Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) and update of voter information record, among others.
The commission also disclosed that as of 7am on Monday, the online pre-registration was 2,485,770 with Osun taking the lead with 379,914 and Borno with 8,798 as the least.
INEC also gave the figure of those registrants, who had completed their online and in-person (physical) registration within the five weeks that the exercise commenced at 569,828.
These include 230,789 through online and 339,039 through physical registration.
It also disclosed that out of the 569,828 registrants, 304,566 were males, 265,262 females and 6,290 as persons living with disability.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the exercise is going on at INEC state and local government offices nationwide from Monday to Friday, between 9am and 3pm daily.
The commission has also devolved the exercise to ward level in Anambra, ahead of the state governorship election holding on 6th November.
