{"id":95641,"date":"2022-06-02T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T07:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=95641"},"modified":"2022-06-02T08:22:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T07:22:27","slug":"20m-nigerians-fail-to-come-for-voter-cards-collection-inec-laments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/20m-nigerians-fail-to-come-for-voter-cards-collection-inec-laments\/","title":{"rendered":"20m Nigerians Fail To Come For Voter Cards Collection \u2013 INEC Laments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has lamented the high number of uncollected Permanent Voters Card (PVCs), putting the figure at about 20million.<\/p>\n<p>The INEC National Commissioner of FCT, Nasarawa, Kaduna and Plateau states, Mohammed Haruna, on Tuesday stated this, while launching a campaign to drive the collection of PVCs and increase participation in the ongoing continuous voter registration exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed asserted that statistics by INEC in 2019 showed that over 84 million PVCs were printed. He explained that over 72 million were collected while over 11 million voter cards were left uncollected.<\/p>\n<p>He said the South-West had the highest number of uncollected PVCs with over 3.4 million, followed by the North-West with over 1.9 million then the South-South with over 1.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>While the North-Central had about 1.5 million uncollected cards, the South-East recorded over 1.4 million, the North-East had over 800,000 and the FCT had about 318,000 uncollected voter\u2019s cards.<\/p>\n<p>However, a civil society organisation is launching a Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) and the PVC collection campaign in collaboration with INEC, United Nations Development Programme and YIAGA Africa to drive collection in the FCT and Nasarawa State.<\/p>\n<p>In April, INEC announced a total of over 1.8 million newly PVCs, comprising over 1.3 million cards of genuine, new registrants and 464,340 PVCs for verified applicants for transfer or replacement of cards were ready for collection.<\/p>\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 Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has lamented the high number of uncollected Permanent Voters Card (PVCs), putting the figure at about 20million. 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