The Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) has further extend the collection of Permanent Voters Cards ( PVCs), Nationwide from January 29, 2023 to February 5, 2023. The Commission made the decision to further extend the timeframe for PVCs collection across the Country after they met with the Resident Electoral Commissioners ( RECs), from the the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja deliberated on number of issues including the reports from RECs on the ongoing collection of Permanent Voters Cards in its 774 Local Government offices nationwide. This was contained in a statement issued and signed by Festus Okoye, the National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voters Education Committee of the Commission. It will be recalled that at the meeting with RECS on Friday 27 January 2023, the Chairman of the Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu indicated that the Commission will not hesitate to consider additional measures to ensure that all citizens have ample opportunity to collect their PVCs ahead of the General Election. Having review reports from all the States of the Federation, the Commission is encouraged by the progress made so far as more Nigerians troop out daily to collect their PVCs. Arising from the various States and discussions with Resident Electoral Commissioners, the stated that the Commission has decided to further extend PVC collection in all its Local Government Offices nationwide by additional one week. The ongoing collection of Permanent Voters Cards ( PVCs), nationwide will therefore continue and end on 5th February 2023. This is the second time the Commission is extending PVC collection nationwide and this will be the last extension of the exercise. Collection period has further been extended by an additional two hours and will start at 9am and end by 5pm daily including Saturdays and Sundays. The Commission said those that engaged in double and multiple registration should not bother visiting any of the Commission’s office and the Commission did not print their PVCs. It further stated that the Commission will continue to act on all reported cases of sharp practices during the ongoing PVC Collection and will ensure that no Nigerians is disadvantage and all those that carried out valid registration have opportunity of collecting their PVCs. The Commission once again salute the patience and doggedness of Citizens.
INEC EXTEND COLLECTION OF PVCS NATIONWIDE *Collection of PVCs at the LGAs extended by one week *Collection time: 9am – 5pm
