Post by Jane Okafor (@Jannie)

22 September 2026

As seen on the street of Facebook🥺🥺🥺

I went to INEC office in Surulere to collect my PVC. I took number 14. I waited 47 minutes.
The officer scanned my NIN slip. He looked at the screen. He looked at me. He called his supervisor.
The supervisor pointed at the monitor. The screen said: VOTER STATUS: DECEASED. NAME: CHINWE ADEBAYO. DATE MARKED: 03/08/2026.

I told him there is a mistake. I am standing here. I am breathing.

He printed the record. It showed my date of death as 15/03/2025. Cause: cardiac arrest. Place of death: LUTH. Informant: MR. CHUKWUDI ADEBAYO (HUSBAND). The record was updated at the National Population Commission on 22/03/2025.
My husband Chukwudi and I have been married for six years. He cooks for me every Sunday. He was with me on March 15, 2025. We went to his cousin's wedding in Festac. I have pictures. I wore peach lace.

The INEC officer said he cannot give me a PVC because dead people do not vote. He advised me to go to NPC to correct the record.

I drove to NPC office at Yaba. I paid N5,000 for a certified true copy of the death certificate. The certificate is real. It has a stamp. It has my name, my date of birth, my NIN. It has Chukwudi's signature as the person who reported the death. It has a doctor's name I do not know.

The clerk at NPC said, "Madam, this certificate was used to process benefits. See the stamp here." There was a stamp from my teachers' cooperative society, dated 10/04/2025. "CLAIM PROCESSED – NEXT OF KIN PAID."

I am a member of the Lagos State Teachers Cooperative. We contribute N5,000 monthly for life insurance. The benefit for death is N2.5 million to next of kin.

I called the cooperative secretary from the NPC car park. I asked if a claim was paid for me. She was quiet. Then she said, "Aunty Chinwe, sorry o. Your husband brought the death certificate last year April. He cried. We paid him N2.5 million. He said he needed it for the children's school fees."
We do not have children.
I drove home.
(Part 2 coming up)

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