Nigeria: Over 11 Million Registered Persons Won't Vote

22 February 2019

As Nigerians go to the polls tomorrow, about 11, 228,582 out of the 84 million registered voters nationwide will not be able to vote due to their failure to collect Permanent Voter's Cards (PVC).

This emerged yesterday as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) put the number of collected and uncollected PVCs at 72,775,502 and 11,228,582 while the number of registered voters stands at 84,004,084. The total percentage of PVCs collected is 86.63.

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