Admin l Friday, Feb. 08, 2019
ABUJA, Nigeria – The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) has extended collection of Permanent Voters Card(PVC) to Monday, February 11, 2019.
In a statement, INEC chairman, Professor Yakubu Mahmood said INEC offices in designated centres will also open on Saturday and Sunday, February 9 and 10, 2019 for Nigerians collect their PVCs.
He said after Monday, deadline, all uncollected PVCs will be deposited at the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN for safekeeping until after the general election. He said INEC is doing everything possible to ensure that no registered voters is disenfranchised.
He said the deadline will no longer be extended after the Monday deadline. The exercise was meant to end today, Friday, February 8th but the exercise has been laden with complains.
“The Collection of PVCs scheduled to end today Friday 8th February 2019 is hereby extended Nationwide to Monday 11th February 2019. This will include Saturday and Sunday Prof. Mahmood Yakubu
“We wish to reiterate that after the deadline of Monday 11th February 2019, all uncollected PVCs will be recalled and deposited with the CBN for safe-keeping until after the General Elections when the collection of cards and the continuous registration of voters will resume”, he said.
“Similarly, the Commission is taking urgent steps to address complaints of unavailability of the PVCs of some registered voters before the end the deadline for the collection.
“The Commission wishes to reassure Nigerians that we will continue to take every necessary step to ensure that no registered voter is disenfranchised on account of non-collection of PVCs”, he said.
