Joseph Bakare
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said it will resume the distribution of 11, 228,582 uncollected Permanent Voter Cards, PVC’s this month.
Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education of INEC who made the disclosure said that all the uncollected PVCs were still locked up at the Central Bank of Nigeria as promised by the commission until after the elections.
Okoye, however, noted that a supplementary election in Rivers State had yet to be concluded.
“All the uncollected PVCs are still locked up because we promised to resume after the elections and, so far, we have concluded some of the elections. The last bit of elections will be done in Rivers State this weekend.
“Immediately after we are sure we have concluded some of these elections, the collection of PVCs will resume.
“So, we will soon resume distribution of PVCs, but they are still with the central bank.