PVC Collection Now To End Feb 5 – INEC

In response to widespread complaints from stakeholders and registrants, who are yet to collect their Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has further extended the deadline for the collection of the cards by one week.
Accordingly, the exercise now has a new deadline of Sunday, February 5, 2023 while the collection period has also been extended by an additional two hours and will start at 9 am and end at 5 pm daily including Saturdays and Sundays.
This was as the commission told those who engaged in multiple registrations not to bother visiting its local government offices to collect their cards because their PVCs were not printed.
The INEC warned that this extension would be the final concession it would be granting to those who are yet to collect their PVCs.
The Commission had on Friday met with its Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, to deliberate on several issues including the ongoing collection of PVCs.
At the meeting, INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, said the commission would not hesitate to consider additional measures to ensure that all registrants have ample opportunity to collect their PVCs ahead of the polls.
The INEC recently man-dated its field officials to re-port cases of unlocated PVCs to their various RECs for necessary action.
The commission in a statement by Festus Okoye, on Saturday, hailed the enthusiasm shown by Nigerians in the collection of their PVCs, and said it took the decision to extend the PVC collection deadline at its meeting on Sat-urday in Abuja.
The statement read in part: “Having reviewed reports from all the states of the Federation, the Commission is encouraged by the progress made so far as more Nigeri-ans troop out daily to collect their PVC”s.
“Arising from reports from the various states and discussions with Resident Electoral Commissioners, the Commission has decided to further extend PVC collection in all its Local Government Offices nationwide by an additional one week.
“The ongoing collection of PVCs nationwide will therefore continue and end on 5th February 2023.
“This is the second time the Commission is extending PVC collection nationwide and this will be the last extension of the exercise.
“Collection period has further been extended by an additional two hours and will start at 9 am and end at 5pm daily including Saturdays and Sundays.
“Those that engaged in double and multiple registrations should not bother visiting any of the Commission’s Offices as the Commission did not print their PVCs.
“The Commission will continue to act on all reported cases of sharp practices during the ongoing PVC collection and will ensure that no Nigerian is disadvantaged and all those that carried out valid registration have an opportunity of collecting their PVCs.”