The collection of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) which commenced on Monday across the country suffered some hitches as would be voters complained of their inability to pick up their cards at centers where they registered. Consequently, the disappointed prospective voters took to the social media and radio stations with their avalanche of complaints. This made
The collection of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) which commenced on Monday across the country suffered some hitches as would be voters complained of their inability to pick up their cards at centers where they registered.
Consequently, the disappointed prospective voters took to the social media and radio stations with their avalanche of complaints. This made the Resident Electoral Commission to take to a major radio network to allay the voters’ fears assuring them that the cards would be available from next week.
Dousing the tension and disappointment of the citizens, the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Olusegun Agbaje explained that the non-availability of cards was only peculiar to those who registered from January to July this year.
He assured them that the the Commission was already working on how to remedy the situation of non-availability of voters’ cards, assuring them that the situation will be redressed net week and that that INEC will be sending messages to the affected Nigerians.
The REC also added that the commission will make their PVCs available for the new registrants from next week across the country. “The true situation is that it is a general thing all over the country that for those who did their registration from January to July 31st this year, their PVCs are yet to arrive in all the states. But all the other ones have arrived.
“The Lagos REC said we should just give them this week to round off everything and they are also trying to collate all their phone numbers so that we can send them bulk SMS right from the national headquarters, and I believe by the end of this week, we should receive our share in Lagos and by next week we will give them.
“But we do not want to say it until we have received them, and that is why I have not been telling people, but it is not peculiar to Lagos state. All those who have transferred, and lost PVCs can get their own now”, Agbaje noted.
