INEC Receives Additional 4.1m PVCs

Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, on Friday said the commission had taken delivery of additional 4.1 million Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) for distribution to registered voters.

Jega disclosed this while responding to questions at the launch of “Mitigation of Violence in Election’’ organised by the International Foundation for Election System (IFES) in Abuja.

“Yesterday alone we received additional 4.1 million PVCs which we have now sent to the field for distribution,“ he said.

He said that the delivery of the additional PVCs gave the commission the confidence that all cards would be made available for collection before the end of January.

He assured that the commission was doing everything possible to ensure that all cards were produced and distributed before the February elections.

“So far, we have made available for collection over 50 million of these cards out of about 68 million cards that have been produced.

“Over 30 million have been collected but there are still millions that are out there for people to collect and every day we are getting additional millions of cards to distribute,’’ he said.