Despite calls by some stakeholders for the dates for the general election in February to be postponed, with the most recent coming from the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) , the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has declared that there was no operational reason, including the concerns over the distribution of the PVCs, to postpone the polls.
“That is what we are encouraging at the moment”, Dasuki said, noting that INEC had been able to distribute 30 million PVCs but had an outstanding 30 million others to hand out.
But, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC chairman, Kayode Idowu, said: “We have not received any official or unofficial communication to that effect. From the point of our operation, the commission has not seen any good basis to postpone the election”.
Mr. Idowu, however, pointed out that information available to the commission with regards to what transpired at the London meeting, was contrary to what the NSA was quoted to have said.
He stated that the claims that 30 million PVCs were uncollected are not true, noting that there has been accelerated distribution and collection of cards since the decentralisation of the process.
According to the INEC chairman’s spokesman, rough estimates indicate that the collection process has surpassed 70 percent since the decentralisation of the distribution of the cards at the ward level.
“Where are the 30 million cards that have not been collected? Statistics are cold; they are not flighty. By the commission’s rough estimation, even though we have not collected the raw data from the states, we have cases of over 26,000 PVCs collected in states in a space of three days, and this could be the trend across the country.
“I can assure you that the percentage is much higher than 70 percent.
“What we do is that immediately the cards come in, we move them to the states. We just moved four million cards recently”, Idowu explained.
He assured that before the end of the month most of the PVCs would have been distributed and collected.
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are the cards collected by the original owners?. or by proxy?. why should someone else collec another's card?.My friend's card was brought to him in his house by an APC official after checking on INEC on several occassions with no luck.
ReplyDeleteAnother cae where a potential voter, after receiving a message to come and pick his card, could not see his card despite several attempts, is what should bring concern to INEC to investigate how the cards are being distributed,
INEC carry go, we must change com 14feb by GOD grace
ReplyDeleteEven if all the registered voters get their PVCs not all of them will vote due to different reasons. So what's the noise about Poor Voters' Cards?
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