Anambra poll: INEC confirms 2.8m registered voters

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The Independent National Electoral Commission has confirmed that a total of 2,802,790 voters are on the register for the Anambra State governorship election scheduled for Saturday, November 8, 2025.

This was disclosed in a statement issued on Thursday by the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun.

According to him, the commission conducted a voter registration exercise across the 326 wards in the state from July 8 to 20, 2025, during which 168,187 citizens applied as new voters.

In line with Section 19(1) of the Electoral Act 2022, INEC displayed the list of new registrants for one week to allow citizens to make claims and raise objections. The data was then subjected to the Automated Biometric Identification System, which detected and removed 27,817 cases of duplicate or multiple registration. Punch