The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has provided an update on the final registration of voters for Anambra governorship election.
A statement made available to reporters after the meeting said that there were deliberations on the final register of voters for the governorship election.
According to reports, voter registration has been completed in the 326 Wards across the State and 168,187 citizens have registered as new voters.
The National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information & Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun said 27,817 records were found to be double or multiple registrations and removed from the list.
Consequently, the figure for new registrants now stands at 140,370 while valid applications for transfer into the State is 5,983, making a total of 146,353 new voters.
The distribution of the new figures by Local Government Area shows that Idemili North with 246,318 (8.79%) has the highest number of voters, followed by Awka South with 216,611 (7.73%) and Ogbaru with 188,016 (6.71%). On the other hand, Dunokofia and Anambra West have 83,580 (2.98%) and 71,332 (2.55%) registered voters respectively.
INEC assured that all PVC’s would be ready for collection before the election.
Dailypost/Fathia Oladoyin
