The Independent National Electoral Commission has fulfilled its promise to reveal the number of Permanent Voter Cards collected by Nigerians.
The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, revealed the details of the PVCs collected and number of Nigerians registered by the Commission at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday.
Yakubu said: “Out of 84,004,084 registered voters, 72,775,502 have PVCs.”
He said this means that 86.63 per cent of registered voters collected their PVCs.
Yakubu said 11,228,582 PVCs remain uncollected as of today.
He said all the uncollected cards had been deposited at the Central Bank of Nigeria.
According to him, Lagos State has the highest number of collected PVCs, which stands at 5.5 million, while Ekiti State with 666,591 cards has the lowest.
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