333,179 PVCs Ready For Collection – INEC

 

Yusuf Oketola

THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said no fewer than 333,179 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) were ready for collection in the State of Osun.

This was made known by the Osun Resident Electoral Commissioner, Prof. Abdulganiyu Raji on Wednesday at a workshop organised for journalists and information officers.

Raji, who was represented by INEC Head of Department, Election and Party Monitoring, Alhaji Shehu Muhammad, explained that the PVCs were printed after the completion of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise in March.

He said the PVCs are for new registrants and reissued PVCs for old/existing registrants and urged those concerned to pick their cards at the nearest INEC Local Government Area office to their residence.

“The PVCs are for new registrants and reissued PVCs for those that corrected information on their cards, replaced defaced and lost cards and those transferring their voting rights to Osun”, said Raji. 

Raji said the commission was 95 per cent ready for the conduct of the July 16 governorship election in the state.

He said: “Going by our level of preparedness towards the conduct of the governorship election today in Osun, we are 95 per cent ready.

“Our office has taken delivery and custody of virtually all non-sensitive materials and batching had been done at the Local Government Areas (LGAs).

“The remaining five per cent are what we refer to as sensitive materials, which by INEC practice, will not arrive until about 48 hours to the commencement of the election.”

Raji also stated that the commission has commenced trainings of staff, Ad-hoc staff and other stakeholders.

According to him, the root training for youth corps members, who constitute the bulk of the ad-hoc staff, started seven weeks ago.