The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Monday 12 December 2022 to Sunday 22 January 2022, February 18 for the collection of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs).
National Commissioner and Chairman
Information and Voter Education Committee of INEC Festus Okoye, announced this
in a statement on Friday night.
“The Commission has fixed Monday 12
December 2022 to Sunday 22 January 2023 as the dates for the collection of PVCs
in all the 774 local government offices of the commission throughout the
Federation.
The commission also resolved to devolve PVC
collection to the 8,809 registration areas/wards from Friday 6th to Sunday 15th
January 2023,” Okoye said.
He said those who are unable to collect
their PVCs at the local government offices of the commission can do so at the
registration areas/electoral wards.
He urged all eligible and valid registrants
to collect their PVCs from 9.00am to 3.00pm daily, including Saturdays and
Sundays.
In a related development, INEC chairman,
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said the commission is already working to resolve
election result issues that may arise from blind network spots.
He stated this at an interactive session
with journalists in Lagos on Friday.
He also assured that those whose permanent
voter cards, PVCs, were destroyed following incessant attacks on the
commission’s offices across the country would be able to vote in the 2021
general elections as INEC would reprint the PVCs.
Yakubu said the commission would be meeting
with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Tuesday, on mobile network
issues that might affect transmission of results. He said that Nigerians had
nothing to fear about the effectiveness of result transmission in the 2023
general elections using the BVAS.