INEC PRESS STATEMENT
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
is strongly committed to ensuring that every properly
registered voter get his / her Permanent Voter Card
(PVC) for the 2015 general election. Contrary to
allegations in some quarters, no duly registered
person has been delisted from the Register of Voters;
neither will any be denied his / her PVC.
This reassurance is against the backdrop of temporary
challenges that have been experienced in the third
phase of the distribution of PVCs in some states, which
the Commission has been making vigorous efforts to
remediate.
INEC has since Friday, November 7th, 2014, been
distributing PVCs to registered voters in nine states
across the country under the third phase of the
exercise. Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) is
scheduled to hold in the same states from Wednesday,
November 12thto Monday, November 17th, 2014.
Similar exercises have already been conducted in 24
other states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)
under the first and the second phases of the
programme. The Commission deferred the
distribution of PVCs in four other states it had earlier
listed for this third phase because the cards for those
states have not been fully delivered by printers. It is
partly for the same reason that the Commission
rescheduled the distribution of PVCs in limited areas
of Lagos and Nasarawa states. The outstanding cards
will, however, be certainly distributed in good time
before the 2015 general election. They are presently
being produced and have been scheduled for
distribution under the fourth phase of the exercise
from Friday, November 28th to Sunday, November
30th, 2014.
In particular, it is completely false that INEC has
removed the records of 1.4 million persons from the
Register of Voters compiled in 2011 in Lagos State. It is
true that at the end of the 2011 general registration
exercise, the Commission announced a figure of 6.1
million registrants in the state. But when that data was
subjected to the Automated Fingerprints Identification
System (AFIS) software, 82,892 multiple registrations
were eliminated. Also, there was the technical
challenge of loss of data and incomplete data affecting
about one million records – mostly in 1,792 polling
units that were identified and made public before the
present exercise. That was why / how the Post-Business
Rule figure for Lagos State (on the basis of which PVCs
were printed) came down to about 4.6 million
registrants.
For avoidance of doubt, a pre-acknowledged data loss
and incomplete data of some registrants is not a
‘conspiracy’ issue as has been alleged by some notable
persons. It is a back-end technical challenge that is far
from sealing the fate of affected persons, and for
which INEC has already put in place measures to
ensure redress. The Commission has made provision
for eligible persons for whom PVCs could not been
printed due to data loss or defective data to come out
from Wednesday, November 12th to Monday,
November 17th, 2014 for their data to be recaptured
during the CVR. In special consideration for the 1,792
polling units in Lagos State where the challenge of data
loss is much pronounced, the CVR will take place at the
polling unit level, as against the Registration Area (RA)
level in other parts of the state.
The Register of Voters is the most important bedrock
of the credibility of any election. It is, therefore, not in
the best interest of the political process, or indeed the
enlightened self-interest of the political elite, to
needlessly impugn the integrity of the Register. INEC
hereby reassures the public of its unwavering sincerity
of purpose; which is the reason it has always come
clean on its operations, processes as well as challenges.
The Commission regrets the inconvenience caused
members of the public by the initial hitches in the
present exercise and pledges to attend to every
eligible registrant within the scope of its outlined
schedules. The Commission also restates its
determination to ensure that the 2015 general
election meets up to global best standards, and solicits
the cooperation of all Nigerians in this regard.
Kayode Robert Idowu
Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman
Source: https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=898163420203048&id=188127847873279&refid=17

if jona wins the next election free and fair fine
but if he feels he can rig this time .....
....believe me what happend in Burkina Faso will be childs play...

Waiting

mrvitalis:
if jona wins the next election free and fair fine
but if he feels he can rig this time .....
....believe me what happend in Burkina Faso will be childs play...

if you will lead the way. Nigerians will watch and see what happens to you first.

temporary voters card still ok,

The explananaTion given by INEC is quite unacceptable. Now that continuous Voter registration is ongoing, what of those who fall in the category of those who are yet to get their voter's cards. How will they know if their cards are available or not and by the time they are ready to collect their PVC, I.e Nov 28, registration would av ended. What INEC ought to do was to publish the list of those whose data was lost so that they can be informed ahead of the commencement of CVR so that they can do another.