The number of Nigerians who have collected their Permanet Voters Card (PVC) across the country has improved to by by close to 7 million since the shift in the election date over a week ago.
Figures made available to The Rainbow by The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) shows that over 52 million persons have collected their cards as against a little over 45 million previously.
However, over 16 million Nigerians are yet to collect their PVCs even as they have less than three weeks to do so. The latest figures released Tuesday by INEC are as follows:
DISTRIBUTION OF PERMANENT VOTERS CARDS AS AT FEBRUARY 17, 2015
S/N States Number of Registered Number of Cards Remarks
Voters Collected by Voters %
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
1 ABIA 1,396,162 1,115,634 79.91
2 ADAMAWA 1,559,012 1,328,136 85.19
3 AKWA-IBOM1,680,759 1,468,708 87.38
4 ANAMBRA 1,963,173 1,499,317 76.37
5 BAUCHI 2,054,125 1,745,441 84.97
6 BAYELSA 610,373 404,119 66.21
7 BENUE 2,015,452 1,548,074 76.81
8 BORNO 1,934,079 1,320,667 68.28
9 CROSS RIVER1,175,623 879,249 74.79
10 DELTA 2,275,264 1,728,524 75.97
11 EBONYI 1,074,273 714,351 66.50
12 EDO 1,779,738 1,145,782 64.38
13 EKITI 732,021 503,431 68.77
14 ENUGU 1,429,221 1,065,210 74.53
15 FCT 881,472 541,359 61.42
16 GOMBE 1,120,023 1,064,577 95.05
17 IMO 1,803,030 1,252,030 69.44
18 JIGAWA 1,831,276 1,706,814 93.20
19 KADUNA 3,407,222 3,133,813 91.98
20 KANO 4,975,701 3,487,155 70.08
21 KATSINA 2,827,943 2,620,829 92.68
22 KEBBI 1,470,648 1,316,656 89.53
23 KOGI 1,350,883 914,164 67.67
24 KWARA 1,142,267 843,792 73.87
25 LAGOS 5,905,852 3,685,322 62.40
26 NASARAWA1,242,667 1,196,583 96.29
27 NIGER 2,014,317 1,413,015 70.15
28 OGUN 1,829,534 747,556 40.86
29 ONDO 1,524,655 1,071,010 70.25
30 OSUN 1,407,107 1,012,678 71.97
31 OYO 2,415,566 1,569,390 64.97
32 PLATEAU 2,001,825 1,406,528 70.26
33 RIVERS 2,537,590 1,923,139 75.79
34 SOKOTO 1,611,929 1,380,840 85.66
35 TARABA 1,340,652 1,196,583 89.25
36 YOBE 1,099,970 824,401 74.95
37 ZAMFARA 1,495,717 1,458,519 97.51
Total 68,833,476 52,233,396 75.88
