JUST IN: It’s official: Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Katsina lead in PVCs collected for election

The electoral commission, INEC, on Thursday released the final breakdown of Permanent Voters Cards collected before Saturday’s presidential election.

The breakdown shows that Lagos State leads with 5.5 million ( 5,531389) PVCs collected. It is followed by Kano which has 4.7 million (4,696,747) PVCs collected.

Lagos and Kano are followed by Kaduna, Katsina and Rivers states respectively. Kaduna has 3.6 million (3,648,831) PVCs collected, Katsina has 3.2 million (3,187,988) PVCs collecrted while Rivers has 2.83 million PVCs collected.

The total number of PVCs collected in each state also reflects the maximum bumber of votes that can be gotten in each state as only registed voters with PVCs are eligible to vote.

However, results from previous elections have shown that having higher registered voters or PVCs does not signify having more people actually voting.