INEC appeal 58,510 Edo voters to pick up their PVCs in person from their LGA offices

The Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC, has announced the successful conclusion of the collection of Permanent Voters’ Cards, PVCs, at the Ward level in Edo State.

The collection, which spanned from Thursday, 22nd August, to Monday, 26th August 2024, saw a remarkable turnout, with 125,928 PVCs representing 68.3% of the total 184,438 newly registered voters collected by eligible voters.

INEC, in a statement by it’s National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, said.

“As earlier announced by the Commission, Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) from the recent Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in Edo State would be available for collection at two levels. First, across all the 192 Wards from Thursday 22nd to Monday 26th August 2024. Secondly, in our 18 LGA offices.

“The Commission is pleased to announce 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. We also produced the collection register, providing details of the voters whose cards were ready for collection and uploaded same to our website.

“In addition, we contacted them using the addresses provided at the time of registration. As a result, out of the 184,438 new PVCs available, 125,928 cards were collected by voters representing 68.3% 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 our website and social media platforms for public information.

“Meanwhile, the collection will resume in our 18 LGA offices in Edo State from tomorrow Wednesday 28th August 2024 and end on Sunday 8th September 2024.

“We appeal to the remaining voters to pick up their PVCs in person from our LGA offices. The Commission reiterates 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.”