The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has on Friday, January 9, 2015 urged Nigerians to come forward and collect their Permanent Voter Cards before the election dates.
The commission, through the chief press secretary, Mr Kayode Idowu, stated that Nigerians who have registered for the PVCs should come to collect their cards before Friday, January 30, 2015.
According to Idowu, the provisional figures released by the Commission’s Voter Registry Department on Thursday, January 8, 2015, reveals that as of Wednesday, January 7, 2015, INEC had received a total of 54,341,610 PVCs.
“Out of this number, we have distributed 38,774,219 PVCs nationwide and had are left with balance of 15,567,219 which were yet to be collected.
He added that the percentage of PVCs that were distributed nationwide by the Commission as of Thursday, January 8, 2015 had attained 71.35 per cent.
“All those who have registered are urged to visit their local government areas where they registered to collect their PVCs.
“They can do this till the end of January. The collection would enable them vote in the forthcoming elections.” He stated.
