The Independent National
Electoral Commission have extended the deadline for the collection of Permanent Voter Cards from March 8 to March 22.
The commission, in a
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.
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