The Independent National Electoral Commission says 40% of newly registered voters are students.
INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, also said 76.5 percent of the newly registered voters are young people.
Speaking at the Third Quarterly Meeting with political parties in Abuja, Yakubu disclosed that nine million, five hundred and eighteen thousand, one hundred and eighty eight new voters have been added to the existing register of eighty four million, and four thousand, and eighty four voters
