The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has ordered the decentralisation of on-going distribution of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to Ward levels, in order to enhance access by persons yetto collect their cards.
Before now, the distribution was done at the local government offices of the Commission since the endof distribution at the polling unit level. Butdistributionof the PVCs will henceforth be at Ward level nationwide.
The Commission, at its meetingon Thursday, January 8th, 2015, resolved that the periodfor distributionof the cards should be extended. Registered voterswho are yetto collect their cards can now do so from 8. 30a.m. to 5.30 p.m. daily.
Secretary to the Commission, Mrs. Augusta C. Ogakwu said Resident Electoral Commissioners had been mandated to set up effective monitoring strategies and ensure that the specified hours werestrictly complied with by relevantINEC staff.
As part of preparations for the next month’s general elections, INEC is to issue/publish the Register of Voters to be used for the conduct of the 2015 General Elections on Tuesday, January 13th 2015.
This is a crucial milestone on the journeyto the 2015 General Elections. Section 20 of the Electoral Act2010(as amended) provides that the Register of Voters for an election shall be published at least thirty (30) days before the elections.
The 2015 General Elections will take place on 14th and 28th February 2015.
Also, the Timetable And Schedule of Activities for the 2015 General Elections released to the public on 24th January 2014shows underitem 10, that the Commission shall release/publish the official Register of Voters for the election on 13thJanuary 2015.
By the same token, the Commission shall publish the list of nominated candidates contesting for the Presidency and National Assembly on 13th January 2015. The list of those contesting for the offices of governor and House of Assembly would be published on 27th January 2015.
In the meantime, provisional figures released by the Commission’s Voter Registry Departmentshows that as at 7th January 2015, INEC had receiveda total of 54,341,610 PermanentVoter Cards (PVCs);ithad distributed38,774,219 PVCs nation-wide and had a balance of 15,567,219 which are yetto be collected. The percentage of PVCs distributed nation-wide by the Commission as at 7th January 2015 has attained 71.35%

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