The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Thursday released the final register of voters that put the number of eligible voters at 73.5 million.

This shows a difference of 5.7 million from its earlier published figure of 67.7 million registered voters on its supplementary list.

Niger State has a voter population of 2.1 million as against the 721,485 registered voters the commission came up with in its earlier report.

The new report also shows that 870,612 Nigerians were involved in double registration. Niger and Katsina States topped the list with 142,040 and 132,062 double registration respectively. The bottom two are the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) (953) and Ogun (2,868).

There are 19,803,689 registered voters in the North-west, making it the zone with the highest number of registered voters.

This is followed by the South-west with a voter population of 14,296,163. Similarly, the North-east posted the third highest with

10,749,059 registered voters. The North-central follows with 10,684,037 registered voters.

The zone is followed by the South-south with 9,474,427 registered voters, while the South-east posted 7,577,214. The FCT has a

registered voter population of 943,473.

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