ACCORDING to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) of Nigerians who took part in the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) operation from January 15 to July 31, 2022, are yet to be printed.
Festus Okoye, the national commissioner for INEC, announced this during Wednesday’s episode of Politics Today on Channels Television.
Okoye said, “If you are a registered voter, in other words if you belong to the class of 84 million Nigerians that have already registered, you can track your data in our database.
“Secondly, if you were one of those that registered with the Commission during the Continuous Voter Registration exercise between 28th day of June 2021 and 14th day of January 2022, you can track where your Permanent Voter Card is and you will still be in a position to collect it.
“But if you register between the 15th day of January 2022 and the 31st day of July 2022, the implication is that you are not yet a registered voter in the true sense of the word because we have just finished the cleaning up of the voters’ register which is still ongoing.
“So, it is not possible for you to know where your permanent voters card is because we are yet to print your permanent voter cards and we are yet to make these permanent voter cards available for the registrants.”
According to him, INEC is under pressure to hold free and fair elections in 2023, and it will be challenging for any politician to compromise the integrity of the electoral process in the election next year.According to Okoye, who also denied rumors that Yakubu would soon be fired. He noted that Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of INEC, can only be removed legally if he violates the laws governing his job.
Yakubu stated earlier today that 76.5 percent of newlyregistered voters are young people and that 40% of newly registered voters are students during the Third Quarterly Meeting with Political Parties for the year 2022 in Abuja.
Yakubu stated that 9,518,188 additional voters had been added to the 84,004,084 voters already on the register, bringing the total number of voters in Nigeria’s preliminary voter list to 93,522,272.
After a one-month extension, INEC suspended the CVR in July after the Federal High Court dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), which wanted to extend the exercise beyond June 30, 2022.
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