One Day To Go! 6m Nigerians Yet To Collect PVCs, INEC Reveals

Abiola Olawale
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  • Lagos, Oyo, Edo Top List Of States With Uncollected PVCs

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that a total of 6,259,229 eligible voters were yet to collect their Permanent Votes Card(PVCs), in just about 24 hours to the February 25 presidential poll.

According to the latest release of INEC, a total of 87,209,007 have collected their PVCs.

Further breakdown of the data released by the electoral commission shows that Oyo state has the highest number of people with uncollected PVCs with 515,254. This  represents a 15.7% data of uncollected PVCs.

Edo state followed suit with 373,030 uncollected PVCs. This represents 14.9% data of uncollected PVCs.

On the other hand, Lagos state has the highest number of collected PVCs. A total of 6,214,970 electorate have collected their PVCs.

Kaduna state comes second on the list of state with highest collected PVCs. The state has a total of 4,164,473 electorate with their PVCs.

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