The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced that 4,121,835 eligible Nigerians had completed voter registration, combining both online and physical enrolment as of April 28, 2026, as the commission’s second phase of the Continuous Voter Registration exercise continued to record steady progress.
A breakdown released by the commission showed that 2,459,339 Nigerians completed the online pre-registration process, while 1,662,496 finalized their registration at physical centres nationwide. Of the total registered, 1,841,494 were male, representing 44.68 percent, while 2,280,341 were female, accounting for 55.32 percent of registrations, a distribution that indicated stronger female participation in the current exercise.
Age group analysis showed that young Nigerians between 18 and 34 years dominated the registration figures, accounting for 2,836,995 registrations, or 68.83 percent of the total. Middle-aged registrants between 35 and 49 years contributed 875,939 enrolments, representing 21.25 percent, while 864,270 older Nigerians between the ages of 50 and 69 completed registration, constituting 8.84 percent of the total.
The commission noted that the figures remained preliminary, pending a data cleanup process during the claims and objections exercise and subsequent deployment of the Automated Biometric Identification System to validate entries and remove duplicates.
