We have distributed 38 million PVCs - INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission has said it has distributed 38,774,391 Permanent Voter Cards to Nigerians as of Wednesday, January 7, 2015.

This information was contained in a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the chairman of the commission, Mr. Kayode Idowu, in Abuja on Thursday.

The figure represents 71.35% of the 54,341,610 number of PVCs received by the commission across the country.

It also showed that 15,567,219 PVCs are yet to be collected by their owners.