The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has provided an update on the final registration of voters for Anambra governorship election.
The Commission gave the update on Thursday after its weekly meeting.
A statement made available to reporters after the meeting said that there were deliberations on the final register of voters for the governorship election.
It said voter registration has been completed in the 326 Wards across the State and this happened between 8th to 20th July 2025.
According to the electoral umpire, 168,187 citizens have registered as new voters.
The Commission said it has already displayed the list of new registrants in all the Wards for claims and objections as stipulated in the Electoral Act 2022.
INEC said it was able to detect invalid registrations through the Automated Biometric Identification System, ABIS.
“27,817 records were found to be double or multiple registrations and removed from the list,” the Commission said through Sam Olumekun, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information & Voter Education Committee.
“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 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,” it said.
INEC assured that all PVC’s would be ready for collection before the election.