Four States ? Abia, Edo, Ebonyi and Ondo ? have continued to lag behind in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration exercise organized by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of the 2027 general elections.

While Abia has so far registered about 11,221 eligible voters online since the exercise began, Edo has registered only 11,570, Ebonyi registered 13,979 and Ondo state registered 17,618 after nine weeks of the online registration.

However, Borno, Osun, Lagos, Kebbi, Kaduna and Ogun States have continued to maintain impressive turnout of eligible voters to register online for the exercise.

Borno, which has overtaken Osun in the online registration, has so far recorded about 826,310 eligible voters followed by Osun with 646,580, Lagos with 604,819, Kebbi with 581,135, Kaduna with 510,490 and Ogun with 510,062.

Overall, the North West has registered more voters online in the last nine weeks with 2,516,890 eligible voters, followed by the South West with 2,118,036 voters, North East with 1,549,905, North Central with 1,169,693 while the South South and South East brings up the rear with 487,456 and 159,986 respectively.

Anambra is not participating in the exercise until after the November 8 governorship election in the state.

Data from the Independent National Electoral Commission indicate that about 8,003,196 eligible voters have so far registered online in the dedicated portal for the CVR, while 1,710,450 have so far completed both the physical and online registration after eight weeks.

Osun state maintains the lead in the physical registration exercise with 151,593 voters followed by the FCT with 106,858, Kano with 96,280, Imo with 90,469, Sokoto with 86,183, Lagos with 85,831 and Borno with 85,720. (The Nation)

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