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With barely two days to the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that a total 87,209,007 million registered voters have picked up their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) across the country.
This figure represents the number of voters eligible to participate in the presidential and national assembly elections slated for Saturday, February 25, 2023.
This was made known by the Chairman of the commission, Mahmood Yakubu, during a media briefing at the national collation centre in Abuja on Thursday, February 23, 2023
Recall that NEC had earlier stated that it registered a total of 93.4 million eligible voters ahead of the election, however, a total of 6.3 million voters do not have their PVCs and consequently will be ineligible to vote.
The final breakdown showed that 93.3% of registered voters eventually collected their PVCs while those who didn't pick up their cards make up the remaining 6.7%.
Bauchi State leads in terms of percentage of collected PVCs with 99%, closely followed by Anambra with 98.8%, while Borno, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Gombe, Jigawa, Kebbi, Nasarawa, and Niger States recorded over 97% collection rate.
Osun State recorded the lowest collection rate as only 81.5% of registered voters collected their PVCs, while the likes of Oyo, Edo, Ondo, and Lagos have 84.3%, 85.1%, 86.9%, and 88% respectively.