The Independent National Electoral Commission -INEC, had revealed yesterday that the Permanent Voters Cards -PVCs for persons captured in the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration -CVR in the country would be ready between October and November.
The INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, for Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, announced this while monitoring the concluding segment of the ongoing CVR in Awka, Anambra. He reassured the citizens that the exercise would end on Sunday.
“INEC has to bring the exercise to a close, to enable the commission to cross-check the data collated. This will enable our system operators to eliminate double and multiple registrations before we produce the PVCs for distribution. The law equally requires that we should display the register in the 774 Local Government Areas and 8, 809 registration areas for claims and objections.
“And we have to print the PVCs, truck them to all the local government areas across the country for collection.”
He added that the PVCs for eligible voters who registered between January to June would be ready in October, while those who registered from July 1 to July 31 would collect theirs in November.
“At least 276, 767 persons have completed their registration as of July 25. The commission deployed a total of 110 INEC Voters Enrolment Devices -IVED in the state out of which 10 malfunctioned,” the national commissioner added.
