The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday, October 22, 2024, said that 55,859 out of 89,777 newly registered voters in Ondo State have collected their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).
The commission’s National Commissioner and Chairman for Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, in a statement issued in Abuja, said the PVCs were collected within five days.
According to Mr Olumekun between October 17 and 21, 2024, INEC made the PVCs from the last Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in the state available for collection in all the 203 wards across Ondo.
He said, “The commission is pleased to announce that at the end of the five-day period, 55,859 cards were personally collected by new registrants as well as applicants for transfer and replacement of lost or damaged cards as provided by law.
“This figure represents 62.2 percent of the 89,777 cards available for collection.
“This is the highest percentage of PVCs collected in five days in Ondo since the commission introduced the CVR in 2015,” Mr Olumekun said.
He added that a detailed breakdown of the collection by Local Government Areas (LGAs) had been uploaded to the commission’s website and social media platforms for public information.
He also appealed to those who are yet to pick up their PVCs in person to do so from the commission’s LGA offices, saying no cards would be collected by proxy.
Mr Olumekun said that the collection of the PVCs would resume in the 18 LGA offices in the state from October 23 to October 29, 2024, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm daily (including weekends).
He said that detailed information on the locations of INEC local government offices in the state was already available on the commission’s website.
