Monday, 9 March 2015

Nigeria 2015 Polls: PVC collection deadline extended for two weeks

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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