- Safiu Kehinde
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has concluded on the final register of voters as it announced the total number of registered voters ahead of the 2025 Anambra State Governorship Election.
This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday by the electoral body’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information & Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun.
According to the statement, the Commission carried out voter registration in the 326 Wards across the State from 8th to 20th July 2025.
During that period, 168,187 citizens registered as new voters.
However, over 20,000 double registration by some of the new voters were detected and declared invalid.
They were subsequently removed before being added up to the list of registered voters in the state.
“At the end of the registration exercise, the Commission earmarked a period of one week (26th July to 1st August) to display the list of new registrants in all the Wards for claims and objections by citizens in the spirit of Section 19(1) of the Electoral Act 2022.
“Furthermore, the Commission scrutinised the list using the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS) to detect invalid registrations. At the end of the process, 27,817 records were found to be double or multiple registrations and removed from the list.
“Consequently, the figure for new registrants now stands at 140,370 while valid applications for transfer into the State is 5,983, making a total of 146,353 new voters.
“Prior to the recent voter registration, Anambra State had 2,656,437 registered voters. With the new registrants, the voters roll for the State now stands at 2,802,790.” The statement partly read.
As further analysed by the commission, Idemili Noth Local Government Area of the state was declared the area council with the highest number of voters ahead of the election.
The new figure of voters in the state currently stand at 246,318 which represented 8.79% of the total number of voters.
INEC disclosed that the new figure alongside those of other local government areas have been upload on its portal.
It assured those how have lost the Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) of getting a new one ahead of the poll.
“The distribution of the new figures by Local Government Area shows that Idemili North with 246,318 (8.79%) has the highest number of voters, followed by Awka South with 216,611 (7.73%) and Ogbaru with 188,016 (6.71%). On the other hand, Dunokofia and Anambra West have 83,580 (2.98%) and 71,332 (2.55%) registered voters respectively.
“The distribution of new voters by Local Government Area is uploaded to our website and other official platforms for public information.
“We wish to assure new voters in Anambra State as well as those who applied for transfer or replacement of their lost or damaged Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) that their cards will be ready for collection well ahead of the Governorship Election holding in the next 63 days on Satruday 8th November 2025.” The commission wrote.
On party registration, INEC announced that 19 more letters of intent have been received, bringing the total so far to 171 as at yesterday, 3rd September 2025.
Details of the latest update, according to Olumekun, have been uploaded to commission’s website and other official platforms for public information.
The INEC Commissioner urged the associations who have submitted their letter of intent to desist from frequent changes of their logo and other details to avoid delay in the processing of their registration.
“As earlier announced by the Commission, a shortlist of the pre-qualified associations is being finalised for the next stage of application for registration.
“The committee reviewing the letters of intent has prepared its recommendations for final consideration by the Commission.
“We wish to appeal to all the associations that submitted letters of intent to remain patient as we finalise the process.
“We also urge them to avoid frequent changes to their logos, acronyms and addresses or one association submitting multiple requests.
“Worse, some associations have changed their interim leaderships, following defections to other associations or even existing political parties, thereby delaying the process.
“We wish to reassure the associations that the Commission will treat all applications fairly while urging them to assist the process by remaining consistent.” INEC added.