The Independent National Electoral Commission has said there are no registered voters in 38 voting units in Imo State and two in Bayelsa State.
The electoral commission also stated that only 2,318,919 permanent voter cards were gathered from the state’s 2,419,922 registered voters for the November 11 governorship election.
On Wednesday, the INEC official Facebook account produced a graphical picture of this.
According to the PUNCH, Imo would hold off-cycle gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections on November 11 (Saturday), along with two other states, Bayelsa and Kogi.
According to INEC, 1,199,263 (49.9%) of the total registered voters are males, while the females are 1,220,659 (50.1 per cent).
The affected 38 polling units are spread across 13 local government areas in the state.
The LGAs include: Aboh Mbaise (four), Ahiazu Mbaise (1), Eziahitte Mbaise (one), Ideato North (two), Isiala Mbano (one), Isu (one), Njaba (one), Ohaji Egbema (five), Orlu (five), Orsu (seven), Oru East (six), Owerri Municipal (one), and Owerri North (three).
Also, youths and middle-aged groups make up 66 per cent of all registered voters.
According to the representation, youth in the 18-34 age bracket represent 801,278 registered voters (33 per cent); the middle-aged group in the 35-49 age bracket has 783,120 registered voters (32 per cent).
Others include the age bracket 50-67 for the elderly, which has 559,122 (23 per cent) registered voters, and the old age bracket less than 70 and above, which has 276,402 (12 per cent) registered voters.
In addition, INEC also noted that there are 1,225 registered voters with varying disabilities.
Albinism (428), autism (42), cognitive learning difficulty (34), blindness (115), deafness (56), physical limitation (5), and short height (239) are all represented.
Similarly, INEC reports 1,056,862 registered voters in Bayelsa State.
Males comprise 566,095 (54%) of registered voters, while females comprise 490,707 (46%).
A total of 880 people with disabilities are scheduled to vote in the state’s governorship election on Saturday.
In two voting units in two local government areas in Imo State, there are no registered voters. One is in the state’s Ekeremor LGA, and the other is in the Southern Ijaw LGA.
Meanwhile, INEC reports that there are 1,932,654 registered voters in Kogi State.
In addition, just 1,833,160 PVCs were collected, according to INEC.
Unlike Imo and Bayelsa, Kogi State has no voting units with no registered voters.
Males make up 953,941 (49%) of registered voters, while females make up 978,713 (51%).
There are 1,153 disabled voters registered.
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