The All Progressives Congress, the
Peoples Democratic Party and lawyers on Sunday lauded the Independent
National Electoral Commission for extending the deadline for the
collection of permanent voter cards from March 8 to March 22.
The commission, in a terse statement on
Sunday by the Chief Press Secretary to its Chairman, Kayode Idowu,
said “the latest extension offers the last opportunity for registered
persons to collect their PVCs before the March 28 and April 11 general
elections.”
“INEC hereby calls on registered persons
that are yet to collect their PVCs to use this last opportunity in
doing so, in order to participate in the forthcoming general elections,”
Idowu added.
The commission had last Wednesday said that it had succeeded in distributing 80.24 per cent of the PVCs to their owners. The figure indicated that 55,232,874 out of the 68,833,476 registered voters had picked their cards.
Out of the 36 states and the Federal
Capital Territory, Ogun State is the only state that had yet to reach 50
per cent PVCs collection. In the state, only 47.27 per cent (864,292) of the 1,829,534 registered voters had picked theirs.
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