| 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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