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Mobilisation

Agents, volunteers and the 68 million

Registered
93,469,008
2023 register
Voted 2023
24,965,572
26.71%
Did not vote
68,503,436
the movable pool
Agents needed
176,846
one per unit
Accredited
157,461
89.0%
Unaccredited
19,385
files nothing, defends nothing

Open with this desk

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Polling units without an accredited agent

19,385 of 176,846 units unaccredited — 11.0% of the roll

Close accreditation before the INEC deadline. An unaccredited agent files nothing and defends nothing.

Agent pipeline

One accredited agent per polling unit
Polling units to cover
176,846
100%
Nominated
167,854
95%
5%
Accredited by INEC
157,461
89%
6%
Filed a form (rehearsal)
122,178
69%
22%

Each step is a real loss, not a rounding. A nominated agent who is not accredited cannot enter the unit; an accredited agent who does not file leaves the result undefended. The gap between the first and last bar is the honest coverage figure.

Weakest accreditation

Share of units with an accredited agent
Sokoto
1,252 units uncovered
72%
Cross River
912 units uncovered
73%
Yobe
689 units uncovered
73%
Taraba
763 units uncovered
73%
Kebbi
947 units uncovered
73%
Zamfara
968 units uncovered
74%
Borno
1,359 units uncovered
77%
Bayelsa
612 units uncovered
77%
Adamawa
786 units uncovered
80%
Anambra
772 units uncovered
89%

Accreditation closes on an INEC deadline and cannot be recovered afterwards. This is the one list on the platform where being late is fatal rather than costly.

Where the non-voters are

Registered voters who did not vote in 2023
Lagos
18.9% turnout · South West
5.45m
Kano
30.1% turnout · North West
3.94m
Kaduna
32.3% turnout · North West
2.85m
Rivers
16.7% turnout · South South
2.61m
Delta
20.3% turnout · South South
2.41m
Katsina
31.0% turnout · North West
2.35m
Oyo
26.3% turnout · South West
2.27m
Ogun
22.8% turnout · South West
1.97m
Nasarawa
21.8% turnout · North Central
1.94m
Benue
28.7% turnout · North Central
1.91m
Bauchi
31.1% turnout · North East
1.89m
Anambra
24.6% turnout · South East
1.88m

Derived: registered voters implied by each state’s valid votes and published turnout, less the votes cast. Approximate by construction — INEC does not publish a per-state register in a form we hold, so this is arithmetic on the declaration rather than a register read. Directionally it is the mobilisation map: roughly 69m registered Nigerians sat out, against 24.0m who voted at all.

Turnout by zone

2023, weighted by vote share
North West31.6% turnout · 6.7m votes
North Central29.7% turnout · 4.6m votes
South West24.8% turnout · 4.3m votes
North East28.7% turnout · 3.4m votes
South South21.3% turnout · 2.9m votes
South East21.8% turnout · 2.2m votes