Ahead of Saturday, 11th November off-cycle Governorship elections, scheduled to hold in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi States, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC says a total of 239,746 Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) are yet to be collected by registered voters in the three states.
This was contained in a statement by the National Commissioner and Chairman
Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr. Sam Olumekun, after the commission met on Monday 30th October 2023, to review the ongoing preparations for the elections in the three states.
According to Mr Olumekun, the breakdown for the three States indicates that out of 1,056,862 registered voters in Bayelsa State, 1,017,613 have collected their PVCs, while 39, 249 are uncollected.
In Imo State, the number of registered voters is 2,419,922 out of which 2,318,919 have collected their PVCs and 101,003 are uncollected, while in Kogi State, out of 1,932,654 registered voters, 1,833,160 have collected their PVCs and 99,494 cards are yet to be collected.
The Commission disclosed that it has published the comprehensive information of collected and uncollected Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) in the three States on polling unit basis.
Other information included are the distribution of the polling units by Local Government Areas, Registration Areas/Wards, the names of the polling units, their code numbers, number of registered voters and the number of collected as well as uncollected PVCs.
Mr. Olumekun who explained that the list also provides the names and locations of the two polling units in Bayelsa State and 38 in Imo State without registered voters, hinted that the detailed information has been uploaded to the Commission’s website www.inecnigeria.org
The Commission appeals to all stakeholders to take note of the information, while warning that “any vote from a polling unit in excess of the number of PVCs collected amounts to over voting. The number of PVCs collected shall be used for the computation of the margin of lead principle”
