The deadline for collecting Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) has been extended by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to February 5, 2023.
Following a meeting of INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs), a National Commissioner with the electoral umpire Festus Okoye said the deadline for the collecting of PVCs has been advanced by another week.
Okoye praised the progress accomplished thus far in the election process while urging Nigerians who haven’t yet obtained their PVCs to do so. Additionally, he urged Nigerians to bring attention to egregious PVC collection centre practises by promising that the Commission would take appropriate action.
“Arising from reports from the various States and discussions with Resident Electoral Commissioners, the Commission has decided to further extend PVC collection in all its Local Government Offices nationwide by an additional one week. The ongoing collection of PVCs nationwide will therefore continue and end on 5th February 2023,” Okoye said in a statement on Saturday.
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“This is the second time the Commission is extending PVC collection nationwide and this will be the last extension of the exercise. The collection period has further been extended by an additional two hours and will start at 9 am and end at 5 pm daily including Saturdays and Sundays.”
“The Commission once again salutes the patience and doggedness of citizens.”
“The Commission will continue to act on all reported cases of sharp practices during the ongoing PVC collection and will ensure that no Nigerian is disadvantaged and all those that carried out valid registration have an opportunity of collecting their PVCs,” it said.
