Agbaje said this on Friday at a programme tagged: ‘Vote Not Fight Campus Town Hall Meeting,’ held at the Osun State University in Osogbo.
Browsing: PVCs
No fewer than 134,000 registered voters are yet to collect their Permanent Voter Cards in Anambra, the Independent National Electoral Commission has said.
IPAC National Chairman, Mohammed Nalado, said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria that the extension was an indication that INEC did not want any eligible Nigerian to be disenfranchised.
Worried about the over 71,000 unclaimed Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, belonging to the State, the Ebonyi State Government has directed all political stakeholders to return to their wards and communities to ensure that all hitherto unclaime ones are delivered to their owners.
Mutiu Agboke, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Oyo State, says 60.1 per cent of the total number of uncollected Permanent Voter Cards in the state belongs to residents of Ibadan.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that it will suspend the Continuous Voters Registration exercise in Zamfara by August.
Lecky said that INEC was concerned with the burden of uncollected PVCs, which had effect on the commission’s logistics planning.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Mike Igini, who disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Uyo on Monday, said the response of the electorate to the collection of their PVCs was poor.
The PDP’s position is against the backdrop of apprehensions being expressed by Nigerians regarding possible insider compromises in INEC, particularly ahead of the 2019 general elections.
There has been outrage in Nigeria over the advertisement of PVCs for sale on alibaba.com.
Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, gave the assurance in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja.
Urging the electorate in Ekiti State to urgently go and collect their PVCs to prevent alleged moves by the opposition to de-enfranchise them, Fayose said he has information from reliable sources that the PVS not yet collected are being sold to people outside Ekiti State to use them during the forthcoming poll.
Paul Atser, INEC Administrative Secretary in Kwara, who made this known in Ilorin on Monday while receiving the new PVCs, said the cards were for those that registered in 2017.
Prof. Sam Egwu, the state’s INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, stated this while speaking at a stakeholder’s meeting in Minna on Friday.
Oluremi, in a statement in Lagos, said that the PVCs were the tools to participating in the forthcoming 2019 general elections.
The call was made following revelations from the Independent National Electoral Commission that over 7.8 million PVCs are yet to be collected nationwide.
He made the call at the Independent National Electoral Commission Campus Outreach program on `Youth Votes Count,’’ at the University of Abuja, on Thursday.
INEC National Commissioner in charge of Ondo, Ogun and Lagos States, Dr Adekunle Ogunmola, disclosed this at the sidelines of South-West Zonal Workshop on Women Participation in Continuous Voter Registration and Collection of Permanent Voter Cards.
Daniel Iworiso-Markson, Commissioner for Information in the state made the pledge on Sunday while in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria at Opume in Ogbia Local Government Area.
Martins made the call at the 2018 Chrism Mass to commemorate the institution of priesthood and the blessing of oils held at the Holy Cross Cathedral in Lagos.