
Less than five days to the commencement of the general elections in the country, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday, said out of the 68,833,476 million registered voters it has as at March 21 distributed about 56,431,255 million Permanent Voters Cards, leaving a balance of about 11 million uncollected cards.
A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Kayode Idowu, gave a breakdown of how the states collected the PVCs.
He said Abia State with a total of 1,396,162 registered voters a total of 1,183,127 have collected their PVCs which is 84.74 per cent; Adamawa with a total number of 1,559,012 registered voters has about 1,381,571 (88.62 per cent) who have collected; Akwa Ibom with 1,680,759 registered voters had 1,587,566 that have got their PVCs representing 94.46%; Anambra with 1,963,173 registered voters has 1,658,967 who have collected, translating to about 84.50 per cent; Bauchi with 2,054,125 registered voters has 1,967,081 who have collected representing 95.76 per cent; Bayelsa with 610,373 registered voters had 548,585 that have collected representing 89.88 per cent while Benue with a total of 2,015,452 registered voters had 1,607,800 that have collected which is 79.77 per cent.
Others are Borno with 1,934,079 registered voters had 1,407,777 that have collected which is 72.79 per cent; Cross River with a total of 1,175,623 registered voters has 983,968 that have collected which is 83.70 per cent; Delta with 2,275,264 registered voters had 1,939,952 collected (85.26 per cent); and Ebonyi with a total of 1,074,273 registered voters has 848,392 that have collected which comes to 78.97 per cent.
Also Edo with a total 1,779,738 registered voters has 1,230,566 that have collected which is 68.81 per cent; Ekiti State with 732,021 has 522,107 that have collected which is 71.32 per cent; Enugu with 1,429,221 registered voters has a total of 1,223,606 collected which is 85.61 per cent; and FCT with 881,472 has 569,109 collected representing 64.5 per cent.
Gombe with a total of 1,120,023 registered has 1,070,725 collected which is 95.60 per cent; Imo with a total of 1,803,030, has 1,707,449, collected which comes to 94.70 per cent; Jigawa with 1,831,276, has 1,757,658 collected which is 95.98 per cent while Kaduna with 3,407,222, has 3,174,519 collected which is 93.17 per cent.
Kano with a total of 4,975,701 registered voters has 4,112,039 collected which comes to 82.64 per cent; Kastina with 2,827,943 registered voters has 2,620,096 that have collected which is 92.65 per cent; Kebbi with 1,470,648 registered voters has 1,372,630 collected which is 93.34 per cent.
Again, Kogi with a total of 1,350,883 registered voters has 926,013 collected representing 68.55 per cent; Kwara with 1,142,267 registered voters has 889,067 collected which is 77.83 per cent; Lagos with 5,822,207 registered voters has 3,799,274 collected which is 65.25 per cent; Nasarawa with 1,242,667 registered voters has 1,048,053 collected which is 84.34 per cent and Niger with 2,014,317 registered voters has 1,682,058 collected which is 83.51 per cent.
Others are Ogun with 1,829,534 registered voters has 1,125,657 PVCs collected which is 61.53%, Ondo with 1,524,655 registered voters has 1,118,479 that have collected which is 73.36 per cent; Osun with 1,407,107 registered voters has 1,033,229 collected which is 73.43 per cent; Oyo with 2,415,566 has 1,639,967 that have collected representing 67.89 per cent and Plateau with 2,001,825 has 1,508,585 collected which is 75.36 per cent.
Rivers with 2,537,590 has 2,127,837 that have collected representing 83.85 per cent; Sokoto with a total of 1,611,929 has 1,527,004 collected which 94.73 per cent; Taraba with a total of 1,340,652 has 1,270,889 that have collected representing 94.80 per cent; Yobe with 1,099,9700 registered voters has 824,401 collected which is 74.95 per cent and Zamfara with a total of 1,495,717 registered voters has 1,435,452 collected which is about 95.97 per cent.
Meanwhile, the organised labour, under the aegis of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) on Sunday urged the Federal Government to review the nation’s security situation in the country to ensuring hitch-free elections
The NLC President, Ayuba Waba, called on the Federal Government to review the activities of the security agencies to curb the security threats from Boko Haram insurgents.
Also, the TUC President, Bobboi Kagama, said there was need for Federal Government to ensure a hitch-free election this weekend as only a democratically stable and prosperous Nigeria can assume its rightful place as the big brother in West Africa.
He said: “We call for security protection to the electorate because Nigerians just want a peaceful, free and fair election. And they won’t be the only ones. Teams of local and international election observers are preparing to monitor the polls.
“There is urgent need of the Government to get the electoral processes in the country right now because for the rest of Africa, successful and peaceful democratic transition in Nigeria will be another powerful demonstration that closely contested elections in a polarised environment can have a positive outcome.”
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