INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this at the commission’s meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners on Thursday.
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The Incorporated Trustees of the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law had dragged INEC to court seeking an order to compel it to allow voting without the Permanent Voter Cards, (PVC).
INEC further extended collection hours by an additional two hours, from 9am till 5pm, including Saturdays and Sundays.
Head of Department of Voter Education and Publicity in the Enugu State branch of INEC Rex Achumie made this known when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Monday in Enugu.
The Acting Youth Leader of the LP, Kennedy Ahanotu, made the call on Friday when he addressed newsmen in Abuja.
Similarly, the public watch body is also urging Buhari to “ensure that the politicians and their sponsors who are suspected to be involved in these grave electoral and human rights crimes are named and shamed, regardless of their political affiliations.”
The group, therefore, asked the people to ignore the order, describing it as a “senseless” order from those against the Biafra agenda.
INEC’s Public Affairs Officer in Lagos State, Adenike Oriowo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Monday that so many old PVCs were still awaiting their owners to collect them at the 20 Local Government Area offices of INEC in the state.
The State’s INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner Olusegun Agbaje, disclosed this at the State Level CSO Engagement Visit organised by the Nigerian Women Trust Fund (NWTF) powered by the EU-Support Democratic Governance in Nigeria (EU-SDGN) in collaboration with INEC.
This is the second time this week that workers will be given holiday to register for their permanent voters cards.
He told newsmen in Ibadan that no fewer than 2,000 of them benefited from the financial support.
The commission also said that after two months it flagged off distribution of 34,242 newly printed PVCs for new registrants, only 6, 382 applicants had come for collection across the state.
At least that is the way it would appease the “furious gods of Nigeria misrule and I justice”.
Wada made the call Friday at the commissioning of the EFAB Global Estate Mosque, Mbora, Abuja.
Director, Justice Development and Peace Initiative (JDPI), Catholic Diocese of Ekiti, Rev. Emmanuel Akingbade, stated this Sunday in Ado Ekiti during a road walk.
The aspirant made the pledge when declaring his intention to contest the Ibarapa East State Constituency seat during the 2023 House of Assembly election.
The State’s INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof. Abdulganiyu Raji, made this known Monday during Election Stakeholders Forum on Devolution of CRV to Registration Areas in the state.
According to Professor Pate who currently serves as the Global Director for Health, Nutrition, and Population at the World Bank Group, ‘’widespread poverty, insecurity, and youth unemployment are direct results of the political system Nigeria operates to elect its leaders. If you want to change the results, you must participate in the elections. Otherwise, your decision not to participate is a decision for continuing a failed political system,” he affirmed.
The Christian conscience group, a non-political but pressure group, gave the advice in a release made available to the media on Saturday
The State’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof. Abdulganiyu Raji, made the declration Wednesday while speaking at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Osun Correspondents’ Chapel personality interview programme: ‘Newspoint’.