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ARE THERE MORE REGISTERED VOTERS IN PDP OR APC CONTROL STATES? (See INEC’s latest figures)
by Dare Lawal
Nigeria’s electoral body is moving on with its preparations for the 2015 general elections, as it has now announced that for 2015, there are 70,383,427 registered voters in the country.
Lagos state with 5,426,391 voters has the highest number, while Bayelsa with 590,679, has the least.
Even though the number of registered voters does not signify whether a party will win an election or not, we decided to look at how many registered voters are in PDP controlled states, as against those in APC controlled states. Ekiti (whose APC governor will leave office next month for one in the PDP) as well as Ondo and Anambra, whose governors have already endorsed the PDP’s Goodluck Jonathan, are included under PDP controlled states. The FCT with 892,628 voters is not included in the total figures.
According to an INEC bulletin circulated to the press and signed by the director in charge of the commission’s secretariat, Ishiaku A. Gali, here are the numbers:
First the PDP:
Abia – 1,387,844
Adamawa – 1,682,907
Akwa-Ibom – 1,621,798
Anambra – 1,784,536
Bauchi – 2,502,609
Bayelsa – 590,679
Benue – 2,340,718
Cross-River – 1,169,469
Delta – 2,044,372
Ebonyi – 1,020,011
Ekiti – 688,950
Enugu – 1,313,128
Gombe – 1,208,927
Jigawa – 1,817,087
Kaduna – 3,743,815
Katsina – 2,928,046
Kebbi – 1,459,734
Kogi – 1,306,533
Niger – 2,427,081
Ondo – 1,472,237
Plateau – 2,082,725
Taraba – 1,279,394

Total for PDP – 37,872,600 (54.5 per cent)
For the APC:
Borno – 2,570,349
Edo – 1,593,488
Imo – 1,672,666
Kano – 4,751,818
Kwara – 1,125,035
Lagos – 5,426,391
Nasarawa – 1,291,876
Ogun – 1,796,024
Osun – 1,318,120
Oyo – 2,487,132
Rivers – 2,466,977
Sokoto – 2,113,698
Yobe – 1,203,324
Zamfara – 1,802,301
Total for APC – 31,619,199 (45.5 per cent)