If you have been to the north before, you wouldn't argue the fact that northern part of the country is more populated than the southern part.

A man in the north could have 5 wives and give birth to 30 children, even more which is not the case in the south. How will their population not be higher than ours?

Northerners would never joke with three things- population census, voters registration and voting. They may even declare public holidays for weeks to ensure everyone is registered or counted.

Here in the south, we are always of the opinion that the one we did last time that there's nothing to show for it so we always relent. If I may ask, how many of you here has permanent voters cards? And if I may ask again why didn't you register? An average northerner has PVC.

Now tell me how they wouldn't have more polling units.

Many of us do not understand the ideology behind the creation of the new PUs. The more the numbers of total voters you have, the more the PU you would have.

How did INEC arrive at the New PUs?

The total voters in a particular state is divided by 500(maximum no of voters in a polling Units) the result is the total number of PUs allocated to the state.

I.E. Total no of voters= T
Maximum number of voters expected in a PU= 500
Total no of PUs in ths state(Tpu= T÷ 500)
Existing PU= Epu
The additional allocation of PUs to each state is therefore= Tpu(Total PU) minus Epu( Existing PU)

If you campare the overall PUs in each state, the magin is not much and its not far from reality. Lagos has the highest with total of 11000 PUs, followed by Kano with 7000 plus PUs. Other states follow suit.

Those who witnessed Anambra, Ekiti and Osun Election would recall that INEC used Voting Points at each polling unit. The idea of voting points is to slit the existing Polling unit where the total number of voters exceed 500 into 2 or more.

The voting points are within the same vicinity but they are independent of each other aside the final aggregation of results from all the voting points that make up the polling unit. The idea is to make voting easy.

That is the same thing the creation of the new PUs is intended to do. Just to make voting easy. It doesn't add any thing or subtract any thing from the existing voters register.

Its just the slitting of the existing PUs with large number of voters to make voting easy.

Ok. I don hear. U be matimatician?

so how did the number of PUs rose atronomically while the number of southern PUs diminished?

There is no magic to make the North more populated than South. The LGs in the far north are ghost hamlets unlike in the South. And the conclusive evidence of Southern population supremacy is the fact that Southern territories are more ancient settlements with indigenous populations that have lived and established their civilization for over five thousand years. I.e Nsukka. For the North, you have recent strings of migrations from neighbouring west African states like the Uthman Dan Fodio conquest of the 1800s. I dare say that there is no Hausa Fulani kingdom that is up to 700 years in existence. So how can settlers be more than indigenous peoples?

iamodenigbo1: so how did the number of PUs rose atronomically while the number of southern PUs diminished?

Southern PUs did not diminish. Its just that they couldn't get as much as the north. INEC gave additional PUs to places where there are more than 500 or 600 voters based on the post AFIS register.

Kponkwem: There is no magic to make the North more populated than South. The LGs in the far north are ghost hamlets unlike in the South. And the conclusive evidence of Southern population supremacy is the fact that Southern territories are more ancient settlements with indigenous populations that have lived and established their civilization for over five thousand years. I.e Nsukka. For the North, you have recent strings of migrations from neighbouring west African states like the Uthman Dan Fodio conquest of the 1800s. I dare say that there is no Hausa Fulani kingdom that is up to 700 years in existence. So how can settlers be more than indigenous peoples?

you may be right. But remember distribution of PUs is not based on population but rather on the number of voters on the register.

tobnical: Southern PUs did not diminish. Its just that they couldn't get as much as the north. INEC gave additional PUs to places where there are more than 500 or 600 voters based on the post AFIS register.

my village has over a thousand registered voters,no additional PU was giving to us

tobnical: If you have been to the north before, you wouldn't argue the fact that northern part of the country is more populated than the southern part.

A man in the north could have 5 wives and give birth to 30 children, even more which is not the case in the south. How will their population not be higher than ours?

Why is any other Islamic State and Region with same religion and similar culture different?

Why is Chad only 12 million and Saudi Arabia 30 million?

Population is not dependent on polygamy rather on some factors which include the number of child per woman (birth rate), death rate including infant mortality.

If there are 35 million women up North and 35 million women down south. The mathematics involves the average living child per woman and not how the women share one husband with 50% divorce rate.

The percentage increase in population of Northern Nigeria can never be different from that of Chad, Niger Republic and neighbouring Cameroon - Fact. Every other logic is irreconcilable with modern observatory Science. QED

iamodenigbo1: my village has over a thousand registered voters,no additional PU was giving to us

definitely there would be additional PU in your village if your claim is true. It hasn't reached the implementation stage.

population isn't about how many kids a woman can have. It's about survival rate. A southerner baby is more likely to survive to adulthood than a northern one and southerners live longer. More importantly, the south has historically been more populated until Nigeria declared independence then the magic started. If you look at it from Google earth, or consider ANY other indicator other than the Nigerian census the south is significantly more populated than the north. From Google Earth Kano the same size as Benin City and slightly larger, with PH, Lagos, and Ibadan being larger, denser, and showing more human activity. Then there are places like Dutse etc which are still villages.

Minna is surprisingly big but there's really nothing in Northern Nigeria. Nigeria is the only place in africa where more people 'live' on that latitude than in the wealthier, healthier, more vibrant, and and more economically vital coastal region.

tobnical: definitely there would be additional PU in your village if your claim is true. It hasn't reached the implementation stage.

ok