collected their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) ahead of the 2019 general
election.
Yakubu made the announcement on during Thursday’s edition of the
commision’s daily media briefing on its preparedness for the reschedued
elections.
“At yesterday’s briefing, we promised to make public details of Permanent
Voter Card (PVC) collection nationwide,” he said.
“The commission has operated under the policy that no citizen can vote
without the PVC issued by the commission and read by the smart card
reader. Having announced the total number of registered voters and their
distribution by age, gender and occupation, citizens deserve the right to
know how many PVCs have been collected across the country.
“The last date for the collection of PVCs was Monday 11th February 2019.
Out of the 84,000,484 registered voters, the total number of PVCs
collected stands at 72,775,585, which represents 86.3% of the total PVCs
produced. Detailed breakdown and percentages of collection on
state-by-state basis have been published on our website few minutes ago.”
Yakubu also announced that a total 11,228,582 PVCs, representing 13.7%,
are uncollected.
“Out of this figure, 7,817,905 PVCs were carried over from the 2014 to
2016 registration exercises, while 3,410,677 are from the last Continuous
Voter Registration (CVR) exercise held between April 2017 and August
2018,” he added.