The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday released the voter register for the November 16 governorship election in Anambra State.
It was presented at the INEC headquarters in Awka by Mr. E. Akem, an engineer, who came from Abuja, in the presence of the State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof. Chukwuemeka Onukaogu and the supervising National Commissioner, Mr. Lawrence Nwuruku.
All the political parties, who will be involved in the poll (23 in number), were represented by four of their members each and were given copies of the voter register.
INEC said at the completion of 2011 voter registration, the commission gave a tentative total registered voters in Anambra as 2, 011, 746, adding that since then, the data capture process had undergone series of processes.
It said one million, seven hundred and eighty four thousand, five hundred and thirty six (1,784,536) persons were registered, while 93, 354 persons would be prosecuted for double registration.
He said the issue of double registration was not only peculiar to Anambra State, adding that the number of polling units were 4, 608.
Akem brought out the indices as follows: age groups, 18-35 were 52 per cent, 36-50 persons registered were 25 per cent, those in the bracket of 51-69 were 18 per cent and 70 and above were five per cent.
Also, the number of females that registered in Anambra was 900, 701, which accounts for 50.5 per cent, while the males reduced in number with 883 persons amounting to 49.5 per cent.
However, it was discovered from the voter register that Ogbaru Local Government had the highest number of voters with over 139,000, closely followed by others, such as Ayamelum.
Prof. Onukaogu congratulated the political parties on the way they had conducted their campaigns so far.
“Once the campaigns are devoid of rancour, character assassination, hooliganism and thuggery, the electorate will be in a better position to make a choice that is most ideal and appropriate,” he said.
