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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Oyo State, Mutiu Agboke, disclosed on Thursday that registered voters in the state are yet to collect about 800,000 Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVCs).
Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting for Ibarapa Zone at the Eruwa town hall meeting, Agboke explained that the commission was concerned about the thousands of uncollected PVCs, despite its efforts to make the owners collect them.
The REC regretted that rather than parties engage in political campaigns, what should be paramount in their agendas is how to sensitise prospective voters on the need to collect their PVCs.
He said: “Without PVCs, there is no way any individual can exercise his or her civic responsibility during the general elections; hence, the need for INEC to intensify efforts in its sensitisation programmes.”
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