Lagos State has the highest number of Permanent Voters Cards(PVCs)
collected by registered voters in the country, the Independent National
Electoral Commission has revealed.
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Out of the 6,570,291 registered voters in the state, Lagos voters
collected 5,531,389 PVCs. The state is followed by Kano, with 4,696,747
PVCs collected out of the 5,457,747 registered voters.
However, owners of 11, 228,582 cards yet to be collected will not be
able to vote on Saturday, as the card is a condition for
would-be-voters.
INEC gave the figures in an update issued yesterday that also showed
Ekiti and Bayelsa as the states with the least number of PVCs. While
666,591 of Ekiti’s 909,967 registered voters collected their PVCs, in
Bayelsa 769,509 collected the PVCs. The state registered 923,182 voters.
In all, INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu said 72,775,502 Permanent
Voter Cards (PVCs) representing 86.63 of registered voters have been
collected nationwide.
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