The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared that hoodlums snatched over 14,000 permanent voter’s cards from its officials during the collection of the cards in Rivers State.

The resident electoral commissioner in the state, Mrs Gesila Khan, who disclosed this to journalists in Port Harcourt yesterday, expressed dismay that some of the cards were stolen from local government collection centres where the PVC’s were deposited to enable the rightful owners have unfettered access to them at the close of the collection exercise coordinated by INEC.

While assuring that over 50,000 PVC’s would be distributed to the rightful owners before the general election, Khan said over 80 per cent of the registered voters in the state have collected their PVC’s.

The resident electoral commissioner who expressed dismay at the action of the hoodlums regretted that Rivers State recorded one of the highest cases of stolen PVCs in the country.

She said, “I am appealing to Rivers people because we have lost a lot of cards. We have lost more than 14,000 PVC’s and it’s one of the highest figures in the federation.

“All the cards that are being snatched are useless and meaningless because we are going to use a new system called “card reader”. Your card reader is just like ATM cards. You take it there and they slot it into the card reader to confirm if it is yours before you are allowed to vote.

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Booked

APC stop this...
Amaechi......smart guy.
But why can't INEC change their way of issueing this cards?
We hear the same thing every four years.