General elections: 60% PVCs uncollected in Kano — INEC REC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kano State, Ambassador Zango Abdu on Tuesday disclosed that about 60 per cent of the Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) were yet to be collected in the State.
The Commissioner disclosed this during a Peace Pavilion 023.1 organised by the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development (SCDDD) in collaboration with the Community Initiatives to Promote Peace (CIPP) for the various political parties gubernatorial candidates in Kano ahead of the forthcoming election.
Amb. Abdu represented by the Head of Department, Voter Education and Public Relations Officer, A. A. Maulud simply puts number of PVC collected in the State at 40 per cent, while calling for concerted efforts by all stakeholders to ensure the electorates come out en masse to collect their PVCs in order to exercise their civic responsibility.
“As at the end of Continuous Voters Registration, CVR exercise, Kano State has 569,108 eligible voters who were registered in the State.
“Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs delivered to the State stood at over 511,000. As at 3rd January, 2023, so far, 180,017 PVCs representing 40 per cent were collected. We have to do the needful. We appeal to all stakeholders to assist INEC to call on the electorates to come and collect their PVCs.
“The Commission has extended the distribution of the PVC to the Registration Areas. Afterwards, it will be reverted to the Local Government Areas offices of INEC from 23rd to 29th January, 2023,” he said.
The electoral umpire, however, appealed to the politicians on the need to carry out or focus on issue based campaign and play by rules guiding the conduct of the elections.
The organiser of the event and Executive Director, Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development, SCDDD, Amb. Sani Bala described the event as apt and aimed at reminding the politicians of the consequences of election malpractices and violence among others as clearly spelt out by the Electoral Act 2022.
