INEC plans moving PVC collection from council offices to points nearest to registrants
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) will eventually be moved from council offices to wards, the nearest points to registrants, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured amid low turnout.
Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) lament the low uptake of PVCs but registrants cite bureaucracy and stress as hindrances.
INEC National Commissioners Mohammed Haruna said the Commission is doing everything possible to ensure PVCs get to everyone who registered.
“We will eventually scale the collection of PVCs to the ward level, but we have not decided when that will commence.
“For now, people are advised to go to the local government offices to collect their PVCs,” Haruna explained, per reporting by The PUNCH.
However, political analyst Adekunke Akinola urged INEC to adopt more friendly ways to attract people to pick up their PVCs.
Another political analyst and lawyer Kayode Ajulo argued the current arrangement is not tidy enough.
“You can’t expect me to register somewhere and then walk 100 kilometres to pick up PVC,” he said.
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INEC publishes voter register – in hard copy and online
INEC has urged Nigerians to help fish out any irregularities in the voter register it began displaying physically in wards and on its website on 12 November, which will last two weeks till 25 November.
By law, citizens have to scrutinise the register and draw attention to any detail pertaining to oneself or to someone else that needs to be corrected or removed, said INEC National Commissioner and Information and Voter Education Committee Chairman Festus Okoye.
“As earlier announced by the Commission, the entire preliminary register containing 93,522,272 registrants will be published.
“The exercise will last for two weeks, from November 12 to November 25, 2022,” Okoye said in a statement.
“The physical copies of the register will be displayed in all the 8,809 Registration Areas (Wards) and 774 Local Government Areas on polling unit basis nationwide.
“For the first time, the soft copy of the entire register will also be published on the Commission’s website (visit www.inecnigeria.org/display_register and follow the instructions).
“The register will give the name, picture, date of birth and Voter Identification Number (VIN) of each registered voter.
“However, for data protection and security reasons, critical information, such as biometric details, residential addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses of voters will not be made public on both the physical and soft copies.”