A breakdown of Nigeria’s new ample registered voters of 93.5m has shown the progress that Rivers State has made, which makes it a state to watch by stakeholders.
According to the breakdown released by the Independent Electoral Commission on Wednesday, Lagos maintained its position as the state with the highest number of registered voters, increasing its figure from 6.5m to 7.07m.
Kano State also added 469,818 new voters to increase its number to 5.9m voters.
Kaduna now has 4.3m voters while Rivers state overtook Katsina as the fourth largest state in terms of voters.
While Rivers now has 3.53m voters, Katsina has 3.51m.
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Generally, the number of registered voters in the South-South zone has risen from 12.8m to 14.4m.
The North-Central, which is made up of Nasarawa, Kogi, Benue, Niger Kwara, and Plateau now has a total of 13.8m voters while the North- East which consists of Yobe, Borno, Taraba, Adamawa, Bauchi and Gombe added 1.07m new voters to reach 12.5m.
Meanwhile, the South-East, remains the geopolitical zone with the lowest number.
Consisting Ebonyi, Enugu, Abia, Anambra and Imo, it now has a total of 10.9m voters while the Federal Capital Territory increased from 1.3m to 1.5m registered voters.
Ekiti State, according to INEC, remained at the bottom with 986,314 registered voters.
