By Aminu Kutama
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said the Permanent Voters Cards (PVC) for persons captured in the Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) would be ready between October and November.
The commission, has however, urged Nigerians that their PVCs remained their actual meal tickets and should be handled with care.
ThisDay reports that INEC National Commissioner, Information and Publicity, Festus Okoye, disclosed this while monitoring the concluding segment of the ongoing CVR in Awka, Anambra State, yesterday.
Okoye, who doubles as the National Commissioner supervising Abia, Anambra and Benue, reaffirmed that the exercise ended yesterday, saying INEC had to bring it to a close, to enable the commission cross check 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 said.
Okoye stated that it would be useless for people to register and fail to receive their PVCs, adding that without the cards, nobody would vote.
He said for those who registered between January and June, their cards would be ready in October, while those who registered from July 1 to July 31 would collect in November.
Giving details of the exercise in Anambra, Okoye stated that 276, 767 persons completed their registration as at July 25 and that the commission deployed a total of 110 INEC Voters Enrollment Devices (IVED) in the state out of which 10 malfunctioned.
