INEC investigating thousands of PVCs found by hunters
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Thousands of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) found in the forest in Anambra by rabbit and antelope hunters are being investigated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
INEC Voter Education and Publicity Committee Chairman Festus Okoye disclosed on Channels Television the investigation will confirm the authenticity of the claim.
“We are aware that there are some people and some forces that want to delegitimise this particular election. Now the total number of registered voters in that particular local government hovers around 250,000 but I watched that video and they were talking about millions of PVCs that were found,” he said.
“Incidentally, in that particular local government, we have almost over 99% of PVCs already collected. Now we have instructed our Resident Electoral Commissioner and Electoral Officer for that particular local government to make a report to the DSS and to the police.
“And then those people responsible for that particular incident must be invited, let them tell us where they found those PVCs, how they found those PVCs, because we need to investigate and know whether the PVCs are from the Commission or whether some people cloned those PVCs in order to delegitimise the work of the Commission and also delegitimise the electoral process.”
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Hunters to report findings to DSS
“So, if the PVCs were found in millions for a local government that registered just around 200,000 then some people have a question to answer, let those who found the PVCs and the radio station where those PVCs were displayed go to the DSS and police and make a report and if they don’t make that particular report,” Okoye added, according to reporting by The PUNCH.
“We have also instructed that the report should be made and they should be called in to come and account for how they found the PVCs because we have not heard of a situation where hunters are now hunting PVCs rather than hunting animals in the forest.
“So let them come and explain to us how they came about hunting PVCs in the forest.”