The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the number of persons who have collected their PVC’s per state.
INEC has finally released the full list of permanent voter cards (PVCs) collected across Nigeria following their promise.
Before now, many of us only had statistics of the number of registered voters – which cannot be largely relied upon – well, here is the number of PVC collected by state, this 2019, as at 11-02-2019.
According to the electoral body, at least 72 million Nigerians have collected their permanent voter cards (PVCs) ahead of the 2019 elections.
Katsina, the home state of President Buhari, recorded 98.69% collection rate, while Adamawa where Atiku Abubakar, his main challenger, comes from, recorded 90.66%.
In raw figure, Lagos state had the highest number of collections with 5.5 million, followed by Kano with 4.6 million.
Mahmood gave the exact number of total PVCs collected as 72,775,585, with 11.2 million cards uncollected.
This shows an increase of 22 percent in the number of the PVCs collected compared to 2015.
Below is a table of the state-by-state breakdown of PVC collection released by INEC;