Plate code

ABD Plate Number Meaning: Orhionmwon, Edo

The ABD plate number is registered in Orhionmwon Local Government Area, Edo. Those three letters record where the vehicle was first put on the road — not who drives it, and not where it is today.

Nigerian number plate with the ABD code — Orhionmwon, Edo
A plate issued in Orhionmwon carries the ABD code. The characters after it are a sample, not a real registration.

ABD is issued in Orhionmwon, the district administered from Abudu. The 2006 census counted 206,717 residents across 2,382 km², about 87 people to the square kilometre. The opening three letters of a Nigerian plate name the local government area of registration, and these are Orhionmwon's.

ABD Plates We Have Checked

Plates carrying the ABD code that our own checks returned data for, most recent first. The make and the colour are shown exactly as the record gave them.

Plate Make Colour Checked
ABD-128AA VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 3 CUSTOM
ABD-174AA GOLF 1998 BLACK
ABD-236AA AUDI 80 CUSTOM
ABD-305AA V/WAGEN AUDI 80 DARK BLUE
ABD-419AA TOYOTA CARINA E ASH
ABD-628AA VOLKS WAGEN GOLF RED
ABD-853AA VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT BLUE
ABD-956AA VOLVO 740 ASH
ABD-111AA HONDA CRV ASH
ABD-222AA VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT BLACK
ABD-999AA VOLKSWAGEN JETA GREY

No holder name appears here, and none ever will: the Federal Road Safety Corps does not release registration holders to the public, so neither do we.

What ABD Plates Look Like

11 Plates checked
Volkswagen Most common make — 7 of 11 records
Ash Most common colour — 3 of 9 records

Counted from the 11 ABD plates we hold. It describes what we have seen, not the vehicle register — and the colour is the paint on the car, which is a different question from the colour of the plate itself. What plate colours mean

The District Behind ABD

Local Government Area
Orhionmwon
State
Edo
Headquarters
Abudu
Population
206,717 (2006)
Area
2,382 km²

Population and area describe the local government area itself and come from public census and geographic data, not from the plate register.

What the ABD Code Does and Does Not Tell You

A Nigerian plate carries the code of the local government area that issued the registration, so ABD places the paperwork in Orhionmwon. It does not follow the car afterwards: a vehicle sold across state lines keeps its plate until it is re-registered, which is why a ABD plate away from Edo is a question for the seller rather than a finding in itself.

The letters also say nothing about the holder, the model or the history of the vehicle. Colours and special series are a separate system, explained on the code hub; what the car itself has been through — auction lots, damage, mileage at sale — is recorded against its VIN and travels with the car even when the plate changes.

Questions about the ABD plate number

What does the ABD plate number mean?

ABD is the registration code of Orhionmwon Local Government Area in Edo. A vehicle wearing it was registered there; the three digits after the letters are its serial inside that LGA, and the last two letters are the series.

Which state is a ABD plate number from?

Edo. The code identifies the local government area — Orhionmwon — and the state is printed on the plate in words above the number.

Have a whole ABD plate, not just the code?

The lookup takes the full plate and returns the local government area behind it. For the history of the vehicle — auction records, damage, mileage and photographs — check it by VIN.