INEC to distribute PVCs at registration areas/wards from Friday

Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) will start to be collected at registration areas and wards across the nation on Friday, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Festus Okoye, the commission’s national commissioner and chairman of the information and voter education committee, stated in a statement on Thursday in Abuja that the collecting at the ward level would end on January 15.

Okoye urged all registered voters to take advantage of the chance to obtain their voter identification cards.

“After Jan. 15, the exercise will revert to the Local Government Offices of the Commission until Jan. 22.

“All eligible and valid registrants can collect their PVCs from 9am to 3pm daily, including Saturdays and Sundays.

“All those that applied for replacement of lost, damaged, or defaced PVCs can collect their PVCs at the Registration Area/wards during this period and the same thing applies to those that registered prior to the 2019 general election and are yet to collect their cards.

“The PVCs of those that applied for transfer are available for collection in the Local Governments and Registration Areas where they intend to vote and not in the State or Local Government where they carried out the transfer.” Okoye said.