A total of 125,928 new Permanent Voters’ Cards have been collected within five days ahead of the September 21, governorship election in Edo State, the Independent National Electoral Commission has said.
The commission’s National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, in a statement on Tuesday, August 27, said 125,928 of the 184,438 newly printed PVCs have been collected in the state.
Olumekun noted that the PVCs collected so far represent 68.3 percent of the 184,438 new cards issued during the recent Continuous Voter Registration exercise.
He added that the PVC collection in the state marks the highest recorded rate by INEC since the introduction of CVR for off-cycle governorship elections in 2015.
He said, “The collection, which took place across all 192 wards in Edo State between August 22 and 26 was achieved through a carefully coordinated effort by INEC.
“The commission is pleased to announce the conclusion of the collection at Ward level. Learning from the lessons of the previous collection of PVCs, the commission has carefully packaged all the PVCs by Poling Units, Wards and LGAs.
“We also produced the collection register, providing details of the voters whose cards were ready for collection and uploaded the same to our website,” he said.