Politics
2023: INEC Meets 18 Political Parties, Presents Voter Register
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has held a meeting with the leadership of the 18 political parties at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja.
At the meeting, the first this year, the chairman presented the 2023 voter register to the parties ahead of the elections as required by the 2022 Electoral Act.
According to the register, 93,469,008 registered voters comprising of 44,414,846 females, and 49,054,162 are males are eligible to participate in 2023 election.
In attendance at the meeting were leaders of the All Progressives Congress, the Peoples Democratic Party, the Labour Party, and the New Nigeria People’s Party, amongst others