{"id":64549,"date":"2019-02-06T19:41:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T18:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=64549"},"modified":"2019-02-06T19:41:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T18:41:58","slug":"pdp-demands-extension-of-time-for-pvc-collectionaccuses-inec-officials-of-frustrating-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-demands-extension-of-time-for-pvc-collectionaccuses-inec-officials-of-frustrating-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP Demands Extension Of Time for PVC Collection\u2026Accuses INEC Officials Of Frustrating Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) urges the leadership of the<br \/>\nIndependent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to extend the<br \/>\ncollection of Permanent Voters Card (PVCs) by three days, a statement from<br \/>\nthe Party&#8217;s Spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan said<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, &#8220;This demand is predicated on reports across<br \/>\nthe nation that some compromised INEC officials at the collection centers<br \/>\nare deliberately<br \/>\nrefusing to issue the PVCs to voters thereby frustrating millions of<br \/>\nregistered voters from getting their voters cards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The PDP believes that this deliberate refusal to release the PVCs is<br \/>\npart of the wider plot by the APC to disenfranchise millions of<br \/>\nNigerians and frustrate their eagerness to vote out President Muhammadu<br \/>\nBuhari at the February 16 Presidential election and elect-in the peoples<br \/>\ncandidate, Atiku Abubakar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The PDP demands explanation from INEC for turning back registered voters<br \/>\nwho went to collect their PVCs and directing them to come at a later<br \/>\ndate for an exercise that is programmed to end on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Information available to us shows that the APC has plans to use the<br \/>\nuncollected PVCs to allocate votes to President Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The PDP therefore calls on the leadership of INEC not to plunge the<br \/>\nelection into a needless controversy but to redeem itself by extending<br \/>\nthe closing date for the collection of the PVCs by three days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) urges the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to extend the collection of Permanent Voters Card (PVCs) by three days, a statement from&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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