CSOs urge INEC to extend PVCs collection
SOME civil society organisations, SCOs, including CivicHive, ConnectHub, Women Advocates and Research Development Centre, WARDC; Community Life Project, CLP; #FixPolitics and Enough is Enough Nigeria, yesterday, urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to provide Permanent Voters’ Cards, PVCs, to Lagosians who have duly registered for the election. The CSOs, in a statement, urged INEC to extend PVC collection in Lagos to February 12, 2023, warning that “voters should not be penalised for INEC’s administrative lapses.” The statement reads: “The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, stopped the collection of Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) on Sunday, February 5th. “A large number of eligible voters whose names are in the Voters’ Register turned up at INEC’s offices to collect their PVCs with their registration slips, only to be sent away empty handed by INEC officials on the grounds that their PVCs were “Not Found” or they were “Omitted”. Some of those affecte...