12 MILLION PERMANENT VOTER CARDS (PVCs) UNCOLLECTED – PROFESSOR MAHMOOD YAKUBU

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu has disclosed that a total of twelve million Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) were yet to be collected. The Chairman made this known at a meeting with Editors at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, last week.

He said: “We have a little over seventy million registered voters in Nigeria. We have twelve million Permanent Voter Cards uncollected and we have at least Seven Hundred Thousand PVCs unprinted and then we have a large number of Nigerians who are not registered and they have come of age”.

He disclosed that the Commission would commence Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise for the Edo and Ondo governorship elections before the National Continuous Voter Registration (CVR).
Professor Yakubu attributed the successful conduct of elections to the use of the Smart Card Reader (SCR) which he said guaranteed the integrity of the process and the outcome. 

“I think we all agree that with the introduction of Card Reader, no matter the imperfections of the Card Reader and the introduction of the Permanent Voter Card (PVC) as a complement to the Card Reader, we have greatly sanitized the process. But we need to go further”, he said.

The Chairman further disclosed that the Commission would further enhance the electoral process by introducing more technology in the collation and transmission of election results in order to make the process free, fair, credible and speedy.