The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced the distribution of 55,859 Permanent Voters Cards(PVC) ahead of the governorship election in Ondo State, which is scheduled to hold in November 2024.
Sam Olumekun, the National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. He said the PVC collection would not be moved to the local government offices of the commission.
The commission announced that it had made the PVCs from the last Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in Ondo State accessible for collection in all 203 wards across the state for a period of five days.
The commission urged the remaining voters to retrieve their PVCs from their local government offices, emphasising its policy that no cards would be collected by proxy.
“The commission is pleased to announce that at the end of the five days, 55,859 cards were personally collected by new registrants and applicants for transfer and replacement of lost or damaged cards as
provided by law. This figure represents 62.2% of the 89,777 cards available for collection.
“This is the highest percentage of PVCs collected in five days in Ondo State, since the commission introduced the CVR in 2015. A detailed breakdown of the collection by local government areas has been uploaded to our website and social media platforms for public information.
“Meanwhile, the collection will resume in our 18 local government offices in Ondo State from tomorrow (Wednesday, October 23) to Tuesday, October 29, 2024, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm daily (including the weekend). Detailed information on the locations of our local government offices in Ondo State is already available on our website,” the statement read.
