The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says students account for the 40 percent of newly registered voters.

The total number of newly registered voters in Nigeria is over nine million while the number of eligible voters for the 2023 general elections stands at 93.5 million, .according to Professor Mahmood Yakubu, INEC’s chairman.

Speaking on Wednesday at the commission’s 2022 third quarterly meeting with political parties in Abuja, Yakubu said youths lead the statistics.

Earlier in September, the commission had said there was a recent surge in youth turnout for the continuous voter registration (CVR) exercise, leading to over two million new voters in one month.

Professor Yakubu however said the number of newly registered voters was filtered down after the commission identified millions of fake voters using its Automated Biometric Identification System, ABIS.

The INEC chairman also said officials involved in invalid registrations have been identified and will face disciplinary actions.