Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - MID-WEEK ESSAY: On the Matter of INEC's PVC Distribution as at February 17, 2015

Hope rising indeed!

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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - MID-WEEK ESSAY: On the Matter of INEC's PVC Distribution as at February 17, 2015

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MID-WEEK ESSAY: On the Matter of INEC's PVC Distribution as at  February 17, 2015

by

Mobolaji Aluko, PhD

alukome@gmail.com

February 18, 2015

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On this matter of PVC distribution, an encouraging national time trend is now emerging:

NATIONAL TREND

 

 

S/N	STATE	NO. OF PVCs COLLECTED IN COUNTRY	% COLLECTION (BASED ON NRV=68,833,735)
1	Jan 9	38,774,391	56.33
2	Jan 27	42,867,410	62.28
3	Feb 4	45,143,679	65.58
4	Feb 17	52,233,396	75.88

 

Hope is therefore rising!

If we hit 80% nationally by March 8, with a minimum of 70% in any given state and geo-political zone, then for this university professor, that will be an "A" for INEC, and for my colleague Attahiru.  There are as many as ten reasons why we cannot get 100% collection - death, dislocation, fraud of many kinds, duplications, apathy, TVC loss etc. -  but you know them all, so I don't need to waste your time any further :-) 

Now that INEC and the country have been thrown a "postponement security lifeline" to enable us all to have a more free, fair, credible and transparent set of 2015 elections using both PVCs and VCRs,  let us make the best out of an otherwise embarrassing four-year-preparation situation.  We should not compromise on use of PVCs and certainly not on VCRs.

To reduce registered voter frustration, instead of looking all over the place for their PVCs, voters and INEC itself should  make better use of INEC's own SMS look-up shortcode facility 

  (1)  To 0817-164-6879:  Text "State, Last Name, Last 5 Digits of VIN". or

  (2)  To 20120:  Text "INEC, State, Last Name, Last 5 Digits of VIN" 

        (without the quotes)

and act on the message received back.  A negative response means no hope for these elections - maybe next election. A positive response means that you now know the polling unit where you can vote with your PVC, or else if you don't already have your PVC, INEC should do all it can to ensure that you get one before First Election Day, and/or you can vote on the First Election Day (March 28) using your pre-qualified TVC followed by Card-reader finger-print verification, whereupon you are issued a PVC in preparation for the Second Election Day (April 11). [For example, go to http://www.govote.ng/pickup/]

For the next set of elections (2019, etc.), INEC should get out of the card issuing business altogether and concentrate on its "core business" - just voter registration, followed by identification  (by any  biometric card issued by some other national body), voting, collation and result announcement at voting booths.

And there you have it.

Bolaji Aluko

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STATE/GEO-POLITICAL ZONAL FIGURES

S/N	STATE	NO. OF REGISTERED VOTERS	NO. OF PVCs COLLECTED	% COLLECTION
1	EKITI	732,021	503,431	68.77
2	LAGOS	5,905,852	3,685,322	62.40
3	OGUN	1,829,534	747,556	40.86
4	ONDO	1,524,655	1,071,010	70.25
5	OSUN	1,407,107	1,012,678	71.97
6	OYO	2,415,566	1,569,390	64.97
	SOUTH-WEST	13,814,735	8,589,387	62.18

S/N	STATE	NO. OF REGISTERED VOTERS	NO. OF PVCs COLLECTED	% COLLECTION
7	ABIA	1,396,162	1,115,634	79.91
8	ANAMBRA	1,963,173	1,499,317	76.37
9	EBONYI	1,074,273	714,351	66.50
10	ENUGU	1,429,221	1,065,210	74.53
11	IMO	1,803,030	1,252,030	69.44
	SOUTH-EAST	7,665,859	5,646,542	73.66

S/N	STATE	NO. OF REGISTERED VOTERS	NO. OF PVCs COLLECTED	% COLLECTION
12	AKWA-IBOM	1,680,759	1,468,708	87.38
13	BAYELSA	610,373	404,119	66.21
14	CROSS RIVER	1,175,623	879,249	74.79
15	DELTA	2,275,264	1,728,524	75.97
16	EDO	1,779,738	1,145,782	64.38
17	RIVERS	2,537,590	1,923,139	75.79
	SOUTH-SOUTH	10,059,347	7,549,521	75.05

S/N	STATE	NO. OF REGISTERED VOTERS	NO. OF PVCs COLLECTED	% COLLECTION
	TOTAL SOUTH	31,539,941	21,785,450	69.07

S/N	STATE	NO. OF REGISTERED VOTERS	NO. OF PVCs COLLECTED	% COLLECTION
18	JIGAWA	1,831,276	1,706,814	93.20
19	KADUNA	3,407,222	3,133,813	91.98
20	KANO	4,975,701	3,487,155	70.08
21	KATSINA	2,827,943	2,620,829	92.68
22	KEBBI	1,470,648	1,316,656	89.53
23	SOKOTO	1,611,929	1,380,840	85.66
24	ZAMFARA	1,495,717	1,458,519	97.51
	NORTH-WEST	17,620,436	15,104,626	85.72

S/N	STATE	NO. OF REGISTERED VOTERS	NO. OF PVCs COLLECTED	% COLLECTION
25	ADAMAWA	1,559,012	1,328,136	85.19
26	BAUCHI	2,054,125	1,745,441	84.97
27	BORNO	1,934,079	1,320,667	68.28
28	GOMBE	1,120,023	1,064,577	95.05
29	TARABA	1,340,652	1,196,583	89.25
30	YOBE	1,099,970	824,401	74.95
	NORTH-EAST	9,107,861	7,479,805	82.12

S/N	STATE	NO. OF REGISTERED VOTERS	NO. OF PVCs COLLECTED	% COLLECTION
31	BENUE	2,015,452	1,548,074	76.81
32	KOGI	1,350,883	914,164	67.67
33	KWARA	1,142,267	843,792	73.87
34	NASARAWA	1,242,667	1,196,583	96.29
35	NIGER	2,014,317	1,413,015	70.15
36	PLATEAU	2,001,825	1,406,528	70.26
	NORTH-CENTRAL	9,767,411	7,322,156	74.97

S/N	STATE	NO. OF REGISTERED VOTERS	NO. OF PVCs COLLECTED	% COLLECTION
	TOTAL NORTH	36,495,708	29,906,587	81.95

S/N	STATE	NO. OF REGISTERED VOTERS	NO. OF PVCs COLLECTED	% COLLECTION
37	FCT	881,472	541,359	61.42

S/N	STATE	NO. OF REGISTERED VOTERS	NO. OF PVCs COLLECTED	% COLLECTION
	TOTAL COUNTRY	68,917,121	52,233,396	75.79

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