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PVC: 4.175 m voters disenfranchised in 10 states

Lagos tops figure with 928,951; Oyo-800,000, Kano-468,314

NO fewer than 4,175,006 ed voters in 10 states will not vote in the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections.


Reason: They were not able to collect their Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, before the February 5 deadline to do so. ended on


The INEC has insisted that voters without PVCs will not be allowed to vote.


Among the 10 states whose data on the number of PVCs collected and unclaimed were ready at the weekend, Lagos came tops with 928,951 unclaimed PVCs. Lagos is followed by Oyo, which has about 800,000 uncollected PVCs; Kano (468,314), and Ogun (412,086).
The rest are Osun (391,145); Niger (353,344); Ondo (303,955); Kwara (218,078); Plateau (184,744) and Cross River (114,389).

In Lagos, the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, [b]Mr. Olusegun Agbaje, said 6,708, 451 about 87/87 per cent of the 7,637,402 ed voters collected their PVCs in the state.

This leaves 928,951 about 12.16 per cent registrants who were unable to collect their PVCs.


A breakdown of the figures according to a document obtained from the commission’s office in Lagos, shows:[/b]

*Old PVCs received – 6,570,291

*Old PVCs collected – 5, 747,651

*Uncollected old PVCs – 822,640 (12.52%)

*New PVCs received — 1,067,111


*New PVCs collected — 960,800 (90.04%)

*Uncollected new PVCs — 106,311 (9.96%)

*Total PVCs received — 7,637,402

*Total PVCs collected — 6,708,451 (87.87%)

*Overall uncollected PVCs — 928,951 (12.16%)

468,314 PVCs unclaimed in Kano
In Kano, a document from the INEC office showed that 468,314 registrants could not obtain their PVCs when the exercise ended on February 25

According to the document of the 399,856 unclaimed PVCs in 2019, only 28,077 have been collected leaving a balance of 371,779 unclaimed.

During the 2021/2022 Continuous Voters Registration, CVR, exercise, 444,626 voters were listed of which 368,052 PVCs were distributed leaving 76,574 uncollected.

In like manner, of 66,479 voters that did transfers, 19,951 could not pick up the cards while 46,518 people did.

391,145 voters disenfranchised in Osun

In Osun State, 1,955,657 persons ed as voters with the INEC but the number of PVCs collected as of February 5, 2023 is 1,564,512.

This leaves 391,145 unpicked PVCs at the commission’s office in the state.

353,344 PVCs unpicked in Niger
In Niger State, 212,329 PVCs were collected while 87,329 remain uncollected for those ed during the CVR period.

For the transfer of the voters cards, 69,009 were collected while 40,901were uncollected.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Niger State, Ahmed Yisua Ahmed, who disclosed this Vanguard said the total PVC from 2019 collected is 2,443,463 while 225,114 remain uncollected.


184,744 voters unlucky on the Plateau
In Plateau State, the breakdown of the PVC collection revealed that from the 2019 batch, 18, 466 PVCs were collected while 49,835 remains uncollected.

In the 2021/2022 batch, there were 292,949 fresh registration out of which 211,123 PVCs representing 72% were collected while 81,826 remain uncollected.

For those who did transfers, 242,600 PVCs were received out of which 189,517 representing 76% were collected while 53,083 remained uncollected.

The fate of 218,078 voters in Kwara

In Kwara, no fewer than 218,078 PVCs have not been collected just as 415,860 was collected recently

Spokesman of INEC in the state, Ibrahim Bolaji, said 1,565,829 PVCs had been collected since 2019.

1,687,389 PVCs collected, 303,955 unclaimed in Ondo
In Ondo, 1,687,389 PVCs have been collected while 303,955 are yet to be collected.

istrative Secretary of INEC, in the state, Oyelami Oyekola Oludayo, who confirmed this, said that “this is out of a total of 1,991,344 ed voters in the state.

114,389 PVCs uncollected in Cross River

In Cross River,the INEC disclosed that out of the 331,427 persons who ed since 2019 only 217,038 have collected their PVCs
The Commission’s Spokesperson, Mrs. Tonia Nwobi, said that 217, 038 PVCs have also been distributed out of 331,427 PVCs received.

She further gave the break down as follows: 2019 PVCs collected is 16,338 out of 97,318; 2021/2022 fresh registration PVCs collected is 200,700 out of 234,109 received; and 2021/2022 transferred PVCs collected is 42,186 out of 71,885 received.

[b]800,000 PVCs unclaimed in Oyo
[/b]In Oyo, the INEC said it was still compiling the list as of press time however, a source at the commission said about 800,000 PVCs have not been collected.

[b]Over 400,000 PVCs yet to be collected in Ogun
[/b]In Ogun State, the State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Niyi Ijalaye, said: “A total of two million, six hundred and eighty-eight thousand (2,688,305) voters were ed in Ogun State, of which two million, two hundred and seventy-six thousand, two hundred and nineteen (2,276,219) PVCs were collected by their owners as at the end of the exercise on 5th February, 2023”.

He added that 412,086 PVCs have not been collected in the state.

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You no even organize and edit your post and you wan make e reach FP

Ok

Maybe na people wey av difficulties in getting dere PVC....

Obi must win o

We don't want to hear he tried after so much noise

So, can those who have not collected be allowed to collect?

Sammy07:
You no even organize and edit your post and you wan make e reach FP

I have done that

Obi is winning abuja and Lagos

Who wanna bet should me

Especially that abuja own

That of lagos even if tinubu manage to win the difference is not going to be 40k to 20k votes

If you know say he sure for you and your Apc quote me make we stake

Why be say na Yoruba states full there, Voters Apathy?
Many Yorubas don't even care to vote.

Tinubu is gone

Peter Obi is the next president of Nigeria.

Bola in the mud disgracing himself up and down..

Bola hijacking APC ticket will give room to political apathy in the SW...

It would have been better if the ticket was given to Osibanjo...


Imagine in whole Nigeria, All the 6 South West states are among top 7.. Tinubu hasn't impressed his people to vote for him, na aboki he go impress?


Osibanjo is laughing at Tinubu's political foolishness

Please Saturday🧐 come already

Most of those states balance out too by having highest numbers of voters

I went to Igbede ( Inec office around Ojo LGA) and Iba primary school complete one week and was told mine not ready. I will try again after the election.

Ok

This election should just come and go so much tension in the land

Ojay

We are good to go

INEC was partly responsible for it.. Asides the fact that so many PVCs were said not to be ready and unprinted even as at the close of collection, they didn't start distribution early like they announced. I personally tried collecting mine as at December and we were all told to come back in January. Come January, the distribution pace was slow and hectic. I spent the whole of the first 3 days I went there trying to collect mine unsuccessfully. You cam imagine in not more than 15 to 20 persons picking up theirs from morning till they closed. And when they started moving round from to designated locations, people didn't even know where and how they were moving.

Sammy07:
You no even organize and edit your post and you wan make e reach FP

Check his profile pix

Those who collected their PVCs but they have died will also not vote

Peter Obi is the man to beat.

Wow, thank you South East and South-South for making me proud.

On Saturday, most of the false assumptions about voter turnout in elections will be unveiled.

In the whole of West Africa, it is only in Nigeria that the population of people closer to the sea is lesser than the population of the people living in the desert.

Vote Peter Obi for president.

Nawa o does it mean that people like suffering
Go collect your PVC and vote the evil APC out

I hope dubious politicians will not use these to rig

Mr Agbaje didn't allow igbos to collect all their PVCs claiming that they're immigrants who came to in Lagos after ing in SE.

Legitisreal:
Obi must win o

We don't want to hear he tried after so much noise

Kiddo, speak on the issue or shut the hell up if you have nothing intelligent to say.


If this was a sane country, INEC wouldn't be allowed to get away with this brazen disenfranchisement of the Nigerian people.

This is a clear sign that South South and South East are ready to give Obi block votes, I'm from Akwa Ibom and my vote and that of my entire family goes to Obi the best presidential candidate

nairanaira12:
So, can those who have not collected be allowed to collect?

What stopped you from collecting when others were collecting despite all the time given?

Let those who have collected PVCs vote with sense.

So that we will not enable the N.Y.S.C. mode and grumble again for the next 4 years.

Say no to vote buying

Say no to election violence

Say no to rigging

Say no to old thieves

Vote for a candidate based on your conviction and not because of crowds.

There is nothing like wasted vote as many people claim. It doesn't matter if your candidate lose or win. All that matters is that you have done your civic responsibility with a clear conscience.
Your vote counts.

Personal Opinion
Finally, say no to PDP and APC. Any other party aside them will do. Sincerely, they have nothing more to offer than they have done in the past. A vote for one of them is a vote for another.

All the best to us Nigerians, this time around

No Eastern State

West dominates the uncollected PVC.

We don't need to explain everything