http://www.punchng.com/news/we-have-distributed-45-million-pvcs-inec/


The Independent National Electoral
Commission said it had distributed
45,098,876 Permanent Voter Cards as
of Monday.
Mr. Kayode Idowu, the Chief Press
Secretary to the INEC Chairman,
Prof. Attahiru Jega, made this
clarification on Thursday in a
telephone interview with The PUNCH.
This is against the earlier report that
the commission had distributed 48
million PVCs across the country.
Details later…

Probably, probably not.
In Nigeria, scammers use any reason to dupe people. I believe they were more of scammers than people working for political parties.