Moses Ofodeme
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) from the recent Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in Edo State would be available for collection at two levels.
It said collective across all the 192 Wards began from Thursday 22nd to Monday 26th August 2024 and then in its 18 LGA offices.
The Commission also announced the conclusion of the collection at Ward level.
Learning from the lessons of previous collection of PVCs, the Commission has carefully packaged all the PVCs by Poling Units, Wards and LGAs and also produced the collection register, providing details of the voters whose cards were ready for collection and uploaded same to our website.
In addition, the Commission contacted them using the addresses provided at the time of registration.
The INEC disclosed that out of the 184,438 new PVCs available, 125,928 cards were collected by voters representing 68.3 per cent of the total. This is the highest percentage of PVCs collected in five days since the Commission introduced the CVR ahead of off-cycle governorship elections in 2015.
A detailed breakdown of the collection by LGAs has been uploaded to its website and social media platforms for public information.
Meanwhile, the collection will resume in its 18 LGA offices in Edo State began on Wednesday 28th August 2024 and end on Sunday 8th September 2024.
The Commission also appealed to the remaining voters to pick up their PVCs in person from our LGA offices while it also reiterated its policy that no cards will be collected by proxy. Detailed information on the locations of our LGA offices is already available on our website.