nigerian electoral commissionINEC, has registered a Permanent Voter Credentials (PVC) collection rate of 93.3 percent ahead of Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections.
According to a document obtained from the commission, 87,209,007 (93.3%) of the 93,469,008 registered voters have collected their PVCs as of February 5, when the collection window ends.
There is a total of 6,259,229 (6.7%) uncollected PVCs, the document showed.
The PVC collection rate is high when compared to 86.3% recorded in 2019 and 81.2% in 2015.
The period for the collection of the PVC ended on February 5 after the electoral commission extended it by one week on two occasions.
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PVC collection began on December 12, 2022 with an initial end date of January 22, but the commission extended the first to January 29 and then to February 5 when it finally ended.
INEC PVC COLLECTION
The data
Meanwhile, a review of the document showed that Bauchi, Anambra and Katsina have the highest collection rate at 99.0, 98.8 and 98.4 percent respectively.
PVC COLLECTED
The states with the lowest collection rate are Osun with 81.5 percent, Oyo with 84.3 percent, Ogun with 84.7 percent, Edo with 85.1 percent, Ondo with 86.9 percent, and Lagos with 88.0 percent, the document also showed.
PVC NOT COLLECTED
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