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INEC Frustrating Our Efforts to Collect PVCs, Say Abuja Residents
The Independent National Electoral commission has been accused of frustrating the efforts of would-be voters to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) with less than a month to the February 16 presidential election.
THISDAY learnt, for example, that at the Garki Primary School in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, hundreds of Nigerians almost on a daily basis throng the school, which the commission is using as one of its PVCs collection centres, often in vain to pick up their cards.
Few weeks ago, the electoral body had cried out that at least eight million PVCs were lying fallow in its offices and urged would-be voters to pick them up.
One of INEC’s National Commissioner, Dr. Mohammed Lecky; disclosed this during an interview with THISDAY.
THISDAY, January 20, 2019
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