As at February 4, according to Jega, of the 68,833,476 Nigerians registered to vote, 45,098,876 persons had collected their PVCs representing 65.81 percent. Here is the breakdown of INEC Lopsided Distribution of PVCs in each state as given by Jega at the council of state meeting:
of the 1,396,162 registered voters in Abia State, 1,073,799 had collected their PVCs, representing 76.91 percent;
of the 1,559,012 registered voters in Adamawa, 1,073,799 had collected their PVCs representing 80.68 percent;
of the 1,680,759 registered voters in Akwa Ibom, 1,328,714 had collected their PVCs representing 79.05 percent;
of the 1,963,173 registered voters in Anambra State, 1,222,002 had collected their PVCs representing 62.25 percent;
of the 2,054,125 registered voters in Bauchi, 1,745,441 had collected their PVCs representing 84.97 percent;
of the 610,373 registered voters in Bayelsa, 386,125 had collected their PVCs representing 63.26 percent;
of the 2,015,452 registered voters in Benue State, 1,132,187 had collected their PVCs representing 56.18 percent
of the 1,934,079 registered voters in Borno, 1,320,667 had collected their PVCs, representing 68.28 percent.
Similarly, of the 1,175,623 registered voters in Cross River State, 859,690 PVCs had been collected representing 73.13 percent;
of the 2,275,264 registered voters in Delta, 1,556,476 had collected their PVCs representing 68.41 percent;
of the 1,074,273 registered voters in Ebonyi, 714,351 had collected their PVCs representing 66.50 percent;
of the 1,779,738 registered voters in Edo, 1,062,370 PVCs had been collected, representing 59.69 percent;
of the 732,021 registered voters in Ekiti, 496,536 PVCs had been collected representing 67.83 percent;
of the 1,429,221 registered voters in Enugu, 761,185 PVCs had been collected representing 53.26 percent;
of the 881,472 registered voters in FCT, 464,769 PVCs had been collected representing 52.73 percent;
of the 1,120,023 registered voters in Gombe, 873,698 had been collected representing 78.00 percent;
of the 1,803030 registered voters in Imo, 949,921 PVCs had been collected representing 50.23 percent
of the 1,831,276 registered voters in Jigawa, 1,460,620 PVCs had been collected representing 79.76 percent.
of the 3,407,222 registered voters in Kaduna, 2,976,628 PVCs had been collected representing 87.36 percent;
of the 4,975,701 registered voters in Kano, 3,190,417 PVCs had been collected representing 64.11 percent;
of the 2,827,943 registered voters in Katsina, 2,245,303 had collected PVCs representing 79.40 percent;
of the 1,470,648 registered voters in Kebbi, 1,232,357 PVCs had been collected representing 83.80 percent;
of the 1,350,883 registered voters in Kogi, 773,197 PVCs had collected representing 57.24 percent;
of the 1,142,267 registered voters in Kwara, 738,594 PVCs had been collected representing 64.66 percent;
of the 5,905,852 registered voters in Lagos, 2,267,039 had collected their PVCs representing 38.39 percent;
of the 1,242,267 registered voters in Nasarawa, 995,068 PVCs had been collected representing 70.75 percent;
of the 2,014,317 PVCs in Niger, 1,250,379 PVCs had been collected representing 62.07 percent
of the 1,829,534 registered voters in Ogun, 666,752 PVCs had been collected, representing 36.44 percent.
Of the 1,524,665 registered voters in Ondo, 824,715 PVCs had been collected representing 54.09 percent;
of the 1,407,107 registered voters in Osun, 995,562 PVCs had been collected, representing 70.75 percent;
of the 2,415,566 registered voters in Oyo, 1,205425 PVCs had been collected representing 49.94 percent;
of the 2,001,825 registered voters in Rivers, 1,899,041 PVCs had been collected representing 58.44 percent;
of the 1,611,929 registered voters in Sokoto, 1,310,003 PVCs had been collected representing 81.29 percent;
of the 1,340,652 registered voters in Taraba, 1,079,333 PVCs had been collected, representing 80.51 percent;
of the 1,099,970 registered voters in Yobe, 824,401 PVCs had been collected representing 74.95 percent;
of the 1,495,717 registered voters in Zamfara, 1,495,717 PVCs had been collected representing 69.92 percent.
As at February 4, according to Jega, of the 68,833,476 Nigerians registered to vote, 45,098,876 persons had collected their PVCs representing 65.81 percent. What would happen to the remaining 34.19 percent of prospective voters was the issue in contention. (Segun Adeniyi/Thisday).