No PVC, no vote – INEC tells voters

The Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) has suggested individuals who have registered for his or her everlasting voter playing cards (PVCs) to gather them, saying, “no PVC, no vote.”

INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Katsina State, Ibrahim Yahaya-Makarfi, a professor, made the decision in an interview with the Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) in Katsina on Sunday.

In line with him, the fee won’t enable anybody to vote in the course of the 2023 normal elections with out presenting his/her PVCs at polling centres.

He stated that INEC suspended the continual voter registration on 31 July as a result of it was a strategy of recording and compiling the required particulars of the voters.

Mr Yahaya-Makarfi stated the train was carried out to permit all eligible Nigerians to register and gather their PVCs and to allow them to vote for candidates of their selection in the course of the election.

He stated: “Part 16(1) of the Electoral Act empowers the fee to register, print and concern PVC to everybody whose identify seems on the register of voters.

“It ought to be famous that PVC is a requirement for voting, as supplied for in Part 47 of the Electoral Act, 2022.

“INEC will, as from Dec. 12, start issuance of PVCs. It will run by way of Jan. 22, 202,3 in all of the 34 native authorities areas of the state.

“Furthermore, the fee additionally resolves to devolve PVC assortment to the 361 registration areas from Jan. 6 to Jan. 15, 2023.”

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The REC referred to as on all eligible and legitimate registrants to be on the numerous assortment centres to gather their PVCs between 9 a.m. and three p.m. day by day, together with Saturdays and Sundays, inside the stipulated interval.

(NAN)