Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has cleared 87.2 million voters to participate in the presidential and national assembly election as well as the governorship and state assembly polls slated for March 11.
This is contained in the Data released by the Commission on their Twitter Handle.
According to the Data, 93.5 million Nigerians were registered but only 87.2 million voters collected their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) as of the February 5 deadline for the collection of the cards.
The electoral body said it would not allow any Nigerian without the PVC to vote on February 25 and March 11 respectively.
INEC said the number of uncollected PVCs stands at 6,259,229 – representing 6.7 per cent of PVCs that are still uncollected.
INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu revealed that a total of 1,642,385 polling units and collation centre agents of political parties will participate in the elections.
INEC data showed that Lagos has the highest figure of 6,214,970 people with collected PVCs, followed by Kano with 5,594,193. Other states are Kaduna, 4,164,473; Katsina, 3,459,945; and, Rivers, 3,285,785.
On the other hand, Ekiti has the lowest number of registered voters and also has the least number of PVCs collected – 958,052.
Based on the geopolitical zones, the North-West has a total of 21,445,000 collected PVCs, followed by the South-West region with 15,536,213. Other regions include North-Central – 14,603,621; South-South – 13,284,920; North-East – 11,937,769; and, South-East – 10,401,484.
