The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that 125,928 new Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) have been collected in Edo State within a period of five days. This collection is in preparation for the upcoming governorship election scheduled for September 21.
According to Sam Olumekun, INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, the 125,928 PVCs collected represent 68.3 percent of the 184,438 new cards printed and issued during the recent Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise.
Olumekun highlighted that this collection rate is the highest recorded by INEC since it began the CVR process for off-cycle governorship elections in 2015. The exercise took place across all 192 wards in Edo State between August 22 and 26.
In his statement on August 27, Olumekun emphasized that the commission’s success in the collection process was due to a “carefully coordinated effort.”
He said, “The collection, which took place across all 192 wards in Edo State between August 22 and 26 was achieved through a carefully coordinated effort by INEC.
“The commission is pleased to announce the conclusion of the collection at Ward level. Learning from the lessons of the 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 the same to our website,” he said.
