Electoral commission of NigeriaINEC, has recorded a Permanent Voter Card (PVC) collection rate of 93.3 percent ahead of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections.
According to documents obtained from the commission, 87,209,007 (93.3%) of the 93,469,008 registered voters have collected their PVC as of February 5 when the collection window ended.
A total of 6,259,229 (6.7%) PVCs were not collected, the document showed.
The PVC collection rate is high compared to 86.3 percent recorded in 2019 and 81.2 percent in 2015.
The period for the collection of PVCs ended on February 5 after the election commission extended it by a second week.
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The PVC collection started on December 12, 2022 with an end date of January 22 but the commission was extended the first time until January 29 and later until February 5 when it finally ended.
INEC PVC COLLECTION
The data
Meanwhile, a review of the documents showed that Bauchi, Anambra and Katsina had the highest collection rates at 99.0, 98.8 and 98.4 percent respectively.
The states with the lowest collection rate are Osun 81.5 percent, Oyo 84.3 percent, Ogun 84.7 percent, Edo 85.1 percent, Ondo 86.9 percent and Lagos 88.0 percent, the document showed.
Qosim Suleiman is a journalist at Premium Times in partnership Report to the Worldwhich matches local newsrooms with emerging journalists with a talent for reporting on issues not covered around the world
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