Ahead of Saturday’s presidential election, 87.2 million voters will decide the fate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Obi of the Labour Party, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party and fourteen other parties.
On Thursday, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed that 87.2 million Nigerians collected their Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs.
The breakdown of the figure of Collected PVCs indicated that Lagos state leads in the number of PVCs collected with 6,214,970, closely followed by Kano with 5,594,193, and Kaduna with 4,164, 473.
Yakubu said the current voter register has over 93.4 million voters, adding that the Commission will continue to clean it up with technology going forward.
He noted that 93.3 per cent collected their PVCs, while 6,259,229 cards — 6.7 per cent of PVCs were still uncollected.
The INEC’s boss stated that 1,642,385 polling units and collation centre agents of political parties would participate in the elections.
“At this juncture, commenting on the national register voters will not be inappropriate. With 93.4 million records with names, addresses, passport photographs, and biometrics (fingerprint and facial), it is the largest database of citizens in Africa and one of the largest in the world,” he said.