The Independent National Electoral Commission has released the final number of voters registered during the recently concluded exercise. The total figure now stands at 76,528,040 against the previously announced 67,664,384.
In the new register, Lagos State has the highest number of voters with 6,108,069 followed by Kano State with 5,270,297. Bayelsa State got the least number of voters at 591,870 followed by Ekiti State with 764,720.
The Commission said it recorded a total of 870,612 duplicates during the collation of the final figures with Niger State giving the highest duplicates while the FCT got the least.
At a press briefing yesterday in Abuja, the chairperson of the commission, Attahiru Jega, said that the huge disparity between the provisional figures was due to "incomplete figures" sent in from the state by officials of the commission.
The highest jump was in Niger state which originally had 721,485 but now has 2,175,421. Mr. Jega explained that during the review, a special committee was set up to reconcile the Niger state figures. Officials, he said, were dispatched from the headquarters to copy the Niger state database back to Abuja and after the review, all information showed that the new figures were correct.
He said the provisional figures in all the states were based on day-to-day returns dispatched by field officials while data recovered from the machine now showed higher figures across the state. He said the initial figures were massively "under-reported" with the duplicates representing 1.8 percent of the total new figure. He also stated that the register would be ready for collection by political parties on Tuesday next week.
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