•Bishops and Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) Leaders of the Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Baptist, and African Churches have called on eligible voters to take ownership of the nation’s democratic process, stressing that God has empowered citizens to effect change themselves and will not do for them what they can achieve through the ballot. The ...
•Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) The Independent National Electoral Commission is contemplating a policy to withdraw and destroy Permanent Voter Cards that remain uncollected for a decade. This recommendation was among 208 proposals arising from the commission’s review of the 2023 general elections, reports The PUNCH. The move stemmed from the pe...
•INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission has proposed sweeping reforms to improve the country’s electoral system, following lessons learnt from the 2023 general elections and subsequent off-cycle polls. Among the reforms being proposed are diaspora voting and phasing out of the use of Permanent Voter Card du...
Ahead of the governorship election in Ondo State, the Independent National Electoral Commission has announced that the collection of the Permanent voters’ card by registered voters will commence on Thursday, October 17, 2024. The INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, announced this in...
Ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said a total of 2,249,780 registered voters have collected their Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) in the state. This represents 85.57 percent of the 2,629,025 total registered voters in the state, reports NAN. Mr Sam Olumekun, INEC Na...

