‘PVCs collection in Edo State will be two phases’, INEC says

By Folorunso Alagbede, Abuja

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has disclosed that Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) from its recent Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in Edo State would be available for collection at two levels.
The PVCs, according to INEC, will be made available first across all the 192 Wards from Thursday 22nd to Monday 26th August 2024 and secondly, in its 18 Local Government Areas (LGA) offices.
The disclosure was made on Tuesday in a statement by an INEC National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Sam Olumekun in Abuja.
The statement by Olumekun reads, “As earlier announced by the Commission, Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) from the recent Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in Edo State would be available for collection at two levels. “First, across all the 192 Wards from Thursday 22nd to Monday 26th August 2024. Secondly, in our 18 LGA offices.
“The Commission is pleased to announce the conclusion of the collection at Ward level.
“Learning from the lessons of 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 same to our website.
“In addition, we contacted them using the addresses provided at the time of registration. As a result, out of the 184,438 new PVCs available, 125,928 cards were collected by voters representing 68.3% of the total.
“This is the highest percentage of PVCs collected in five days since the Commission introduced the CVR ahead of off-cycle governorship elections in 2015.
“A detailed breakdown of the collection by LGAs has been uploaded to our website and social media platforms for public information.”