The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC says the total number of collected Permanent Voters Card PVCs across Nigeria is stood at 72,775,585.
The chairman of the commission, Mahmood Yakubu, made these known on Thursday at INEC’s daily briefing since the postponement of last Saturday’s presidential election.
He said that this implies the total number of votes across the country for the presidential election cannot be more than 72 as only persons with PVCs that can vote.
The commission also said the number of uncollected voters cards is 11, 228, 582. This implies that this number of people registered prior to the elections but did not collect their PVCS, meaning they are ineligible to vote in Saturday’s election.
Having announced the total number of registered voters to be a little above 84 million, the commission promised to publish the total number of uncollected PVCs.
