522,000 PVCs not collected in Edo, INEC says

A few weeks before presidential and national assembly elections in the country, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in Edo state, announced that a total of 522,000 permanent voter cards (PVCs) are still to be collected in the state .

The Commission explained that the 522,000 uncollected PVCs are both the old and new PVCs of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR).

This was revealed yesterday by the INEC representative for voter education, Mr. Timidi Wariowie, at a town hall meeting on youth participation in the upcoming election organized by a non-governmental organization, Yes Project, tagged “Value Your Votes Najia” in Benin. City.

He revealed: “At the end of the CVR exercise, 419,000 PVC including new registration, transfer of maps from one point to another and updated information were sent to the Edo INEC office.

“Of the 419,000 PVCs, 299,000 were collected yesterday (Wednesday), while about 120,000 are still uncollected. Also, about 402,000 old PVC still need to be collected in the state.”

He stated that when the distribution of the new PVCs started, daily collections were above 20,000, and regretted that daily collections have been reduced to between 1,000, 2,000 and 3,000 in the 18 local authorities.

Wariowie tasked the youth organization and civil society organizations (CSOs) in the state to continue to raise awareness among young people of the need to register and get their PVCs, claiming that this is the only way they can stand up during the upcoming election vote for their favorite candidate.

Earlier, Yes Project executive director Oche Precious said that the event tagged “Value Your Vote Naija” was to raise awareness among the youth of the need to cast their vote in the February 25 and March 11 elections .

“Now is the time to change the narrative by casting over votes and determining the next leader who will run our nation’s affairs.”

Other participants who also spoke at the event accused the young people of not selling their conscience through vote buying, saying that now is the time for the young people to vote on their conscience.

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