Atiku/Tinubu or Obi: 93 million voters to decide who becomes president in 2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that 93 million Nigerians will decide who becomes the next president of the country in 2023.

INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu made the disclosure on Wednesday during the Commission’s quarterly meeting with political parties in Abuja.

He also reiterated the earlier resolve of the Commission to conduct transparent, free, fair and credible polls in 2023.

Prof Yakubu maintained that regardless of insinuations, there will be no going back on the decision to deploy technology in the form of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) as well as the Electronic Transmission of Results of the elections as approved by enabling laws.

He gave insight into the demographics of the new registrants, stating that young people (18-34years ) constitute 76.5 % or 7.2 million of new voters.

“In terms of demographic distribution, 7.2 million new voters or 76.5% are young people between 18-34 years while there is a slightly higher number of females (4.8 million or 50.82%) than males (4.6 million or 49.18%) voters. In terms of occupation, 3.8 million (40.8%) are students”, he said.

On the actual number of voters that will decide the faith of politicians in 2023, he said the figure would be clear after the preliminary 93 million is subjected to the scrutiny of Nigerians via claims and objections, as he urged Nigerians to help in the clean up of the voter register.

“The display of the physical register will take place at the designated centres from Saturday 12th – Friday 25th November 2022. Further details, including the procedure for filing claims and objections, will be released by the Commission next week. I would like to appeal to all Nigerians to seize the opportunity of the display to scrutinize the list and help us to clean it up further so that the final register of voters for the 2023 General Election can be compiled and published.