THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that 5,169,692 Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) had been collected in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi ahead of the November 11 governorship elections in the states.
The Commission, in a statement by its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr. Sam Olumekun, in Abuja on Monday October 30, put the uncollected number of PVCs in the three states at 239,746.
According to him: “The breakdown for the three states indicates that out of 1,056,862 registered voters in Bayelsa, 1,017,613 have collected their PVCs and 39,249 are uncollected.
“In Imo, the number of registered voters is 2,419,922, out of which 2,318,919 have collected their PVCs and 101,003 are uncollected.
“In Kogi, out of 1,932,654 registered voters, 1,833,160 have collected their PVCs, leaving 99,494 uncollected.”
Olumekun said that the Commission met on Monday to review the ongoing preparations for the off-cycle governorship elections in the three states, adding, however, added that detailed information on the PVCs had been uploaded to its website.
The comprehensive information, he noted, include the distribution of the polling units by local government areas, registration areas/wards, names of the polling units, their code numbers, number of registered voters, number of collected and uncollected PVCs.
“Equally significant, the list provides the names and locations of the two polling units in Bayelsa and 38 in Imo without registered voters,” he said.
While appealling to stakeholders to note the information, he stressed: “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.”
