PVC collection closes today

Collection of Permanent Voter Card
from the Independent National
Electoral Commission closes today.
INEC had on March 8, 2015, extended
the deadline for collection of the
card across the country by
additional two weeks – from March
8 to March 22.
The card is a prerequisite for an
eligible voter to cast his vote in the
elections.
A statement by the Chief Press
Secretary to the Chairman of INEC,
Mr. Kayode Idowu, had said the
latest extension offered the last
opportunity for duly registered
voters to collect their PVCs before
the general elections on March 28
and April 11.
“INEC hereby calls on registered
persons that are yet to collect their
PVCs to use this last opportunity in
doing so, in order to participate in
the forthcoming general elections,”
Idowu added.
The electoral commission had said
it had succeeded in distributing
80.24 per cent of PVCs to their
owners as of March 4.
The figure indicated that 55,232,874
out of the 68,833,476 registered
voters had picked their cards.