LG Boss Charges Voters On PVCs Collection 

Ahead of the general elections, Chairman of Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State, Rowland Sekibo has called on registered voters in the area who are yet to collect their Permanent Voters Card to go to their various wards in the area for collection.
Sekibo in a statement issued in Abonema and obtained by The Tide said a remarkable PVC collection will pave the way for an increase in the number of votes during the elections.
The council chairman said INEC has made it simple for all those who are yet to collect their PVCs by taking the collection points to their wards and therefore urged people of the area to take advantage of the situation.
He said that the importance of the Permanent Voter’s Card cannot be over-emphasized, noting that no one can exercise his/her franchise without having first registered to vote and collect his/her PVC afterwards.
Recalled that INEC had declared that the ward to ward distribution of PVCs will end today, January 21, this year, even as the commission said it would visit the various wards across the 23 local government areas of the state to distribute the voters’ cards.
In a related development, INEC said it would suspend the distribution of PVCs on February 8, this year, according to the Rivers State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Obo Effanga.
Effanga stated this during a consultative meeting with religious leaders in Port Harcourt at the weekend, saying the election umpire would resume the issuance of PVCs after the general elections.

Dennis Naku