By Winnie Kamau
Nairobi, Kenya: As the most populous country in the Continent of Africa heads to the polls today. We look at some of their data and how many people expected to vote.
According to the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC) they had registered over 93 million voters out of a population of 213 Million citizens. Out of the 93 million registered voters 13 million are Housewives and 37 million of the registered voters are the youth.
The country has also seen 18 presidential candidates come out to challenge the post of incumbent President Muhammad Buhari.
Over 49 million of the voters are male and the women who are registered to vote stand at over 44 million.
Persons living with disability have been captured with 21,150 having Albinism set to vote and 3,481 are Autistic while 8,103 are persons who are blind. Persons who are deaf have been captured at 6,159 and those with Down syndrome are 660.
Persons with physical impediment are 13,387, while persons with Little stature are at 2,288 and those with spinal cord injury set to vote are 779.
Artisans recorded to vote are almost 5 million persons while businessmen/women captured to vote are over 12 million voters.
Over 5 million Civil Servants have registered as voters while over 14 million are farmers and fishermen. Housewives recorded to vote are 13 million and traders registered to vote are over 7 million.
Over 2 million registered voters are Public servants while over 26 million are students registered as voters.
