Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says 55,859 out of 89,777 newly-registered voters in Ondo State collected their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) within five days.
National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr. Sam Olumekun, revealed this in a statement issued by the commission on Tuesday in Abuja.
Olumekun said between Oct. 17 and Oct. 21, INEC made the PVCs from the last Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in the state available for collection in all the 203 wards across the state.
“The commission is pleased to announce that at the end of the five-day period, 55,859 cards were personally collected by new registrants as well as applicants for transfer and replacement of lost or damaged cards as provided by law.
“This figure represents 62.2 per cent of the 89,777 cards available for collection.
“This is the highest percentage of PVCs collected in five days in Ondo since the commission introduced the CVR in 2015,” he said.O
Olumekun said that detailed breakdown of the collection by Local Government Areas (LGAs) had been uploaded to the commission’s website and social media platforms for public information.
He appealed to those who had yet to pick up their PVCs in person to do so from the commission’s LGA offices, saying no cards would be collected by proxy.
Olumekun said that the collection of the PVCs would resume in the 18 LGA offices in the state from Oct. 23 to Oct. 29 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily (including weekend).
He said that detailed information on the locations of INEC local government offices in the state was already available on the commission’s website. (NAN)
