Ex-Commissioner Decries Low Rate Of PVCs Collection In Ebonyi

Former Commissioner of Works, Housing and Transportation in Ebonyi, Dr Paul Okorie, has decried the low rate of collection of the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in the state.
Okorie, also a former Commissioner of Environment under former Gov. Martin Elechi, spoke on Monday in Abakaliki, in an interview with newsmen.
Okorie was reacting to the statement credited to Prof. Godswill Obioma,
Ebonyi Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), about low rate of PVCs collection in the state.
Obioma said that only 6025 PVCs, out of the over 77,000 PVCs of the 2017 Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) released by the electoral body for Ebonyi had so far been collected.
Obioma also said that 400 PVCs had so far been collected, out of the over 47,000 PVCs in the pre-2017 registration.
Okorie, a governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), described the development as discouraging.
He urged stakeholders, political parties, traditional rulers and community leaders to step up sensitisation efforts on the PVCs collection.
He explained that the voter cards remained the power available to the voters, adding that the clamour for change would remain a mirage if those who registered did not go and collect their voter cards to enable them vote.