The Independent National Electoral Commission has revealed that a total of 72,775,502 million Nigerians have collected Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs ) for the General Election, representing 86.63 per cent of eligible voters. This implies that the total number of votes across the country for the presidential election cannot be more than 72,775,585 as only persons with PVCs can be allowed to vote on Saturday.
Lagos, Kano, Kaduna lead in PVC Collection
The electoral commission, INEC, on Thursday released the final breakdown of Permanent Voters Cards collected before Saturday’s presidential election.
The breakdown shows that Lagos State leads with 5.5 million ( 5,531389) PVCs collected. It is followed by Kano which has 4.7 million (4,696,747) PVCs collected.
Lagos and Kano are followed by Kaduna, Katsina and Rivers states respectively. Kaduna has 3.6 million (3,648,831) PVCs collected, Katsina has 3.2 million (3,187,988) PVCs collecrted while Rivers has 2.83 million PVCs collected.
The total number of PVCs collected in each state also reflects the maximum bumber of votes that can be gotten in each state as only registed voters with PVCs are eligible to vote.
However, results from previous elections have shown that having higher registered voters or PVCs does not signify having more people actually voting.
