87 Million Nigerians expected To Vote Saturday, Says INEC

By Uche Mbah

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared 87,209,007 Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) collected across the country in preparation for the Presidential and National Assembly elections Saturday.

Speaking on Thursday during a Media briefing at the national collation centre in Abuja, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman, Mahmud Yakubu, said there are still many more PVCs to distribute.

He, however, made no mention of thousands of PVCs recovered from a bush in Nnewi, Anambra State, where they were dumped.

December 12 to January 22 were the periods set aside for PVC collection exercise in all LGAs, which was later extended to February 5.

According to Yakubu, the rate of collection is higher than in previous years.

The Commission later distributed some backup data to Journalists.

93,469,008 were the total number of registered voters, of which the 87 million represented 93% of registered voters. The rest, roughly 7%,are yet to be collected.

Lagos has the largest number of collected PVCs with 6,214,970, followed by Kano with 5,594,193, and Kaduna with 4,164, 473.

The States with the highest number of uncollected PVCs include Lagos – 845,225, Oyo – 515,254, and Ogun – 410,281.