The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has begun issuing permanent voter cards (PVCs) to those who enrolled during the continuous voter registration (CVR) between June and December last year.
Speaking yesterday during the launch of the exercise in Lagos, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Olusegun Agbaje urged those who registered during the period to visit INEC offices in their local governments to pick their PVCs, “because there is no way they can vote in next year’s election without collecting their cards.”
He said INEC had no plan of decentralising the collection of PVCs. Agbaje said about 33,000 PVCs were ready for collection, adding that those involved in double registration would, however, not be able to collect their cards.
He said the PVCs of those who registered between January and now and those who would register before the end of the current exercise in June would be issued later.
INEC yesterday lamented the low collection of PVCs by the electorate, ahead of the 2022 Osun State governorship election.
The REC, Prof. Abdulganiyy Raji, speaking at the implementation programme on voter education organised for INEC electoral officers and assistant electoral officers from the local governments, held in Osogbo, said more PVCs would arrive in the state next week.
He said despite the publicity done by the commission, over 370,000 PVCs produced between 2011 and 2018 were yet to be collected.
Raji said: “A lot of PVCs have not been collected. We don’t know why there is apathy among the people.
“Hopefully by next week we will roll out the cards for those who registered between June last year and March this year.”
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