Edo Election: INEC Begins PVC Distribution Thursday

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC says it will start distribution of Permanent Voter Cards, PVC to newly registered voters on Thursday, ahead of the governorship elections in Edo State.

In a statement on its X handle on Monday, the commission shared the list of the centres where the cards would be distributed, adding that from August 22 to August 26, registered voters could pick up their cards at any of the 192 Wards in Edo State from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm daily, including weekends.

After this period, the collection would move to INEC’s local government offices across the state, where voters can collect their PVCs from August 28 to September 8, 2024.

The Edo governorship election is scheduled to be held on September 21, 2024 and a total of 184,438 voters were registered during the recently concluded Continuous Voters Registration in Edo State.

The figure included 119,206 new registrations, 8,847 inter-state transfers, and 46,171 intra-state transfers.

While addressing the Resident Electoral Commissioners in Abuja on Monday, the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said all the newly printed PVC’s have been delivered to INEC’s office in Benin City and are now available for collection.

The meeting comes close to two off-cycle governorship elections; the Edo and Ondo State governorship elections. Furthermore, there are pending bye-elections to fill seven vacancies in the National and State Assemblies across six States of the Federation.

Yakubu said, as provided by law, the Commission has updated the records of 4,808 voters who applied for correction of names, addresses or dates of birth from previous registrations and also replaced 5,406 lost or damaged PVCs. Put together, 184,438 voters of various categories were served by the Commission during the last CVR in Edo State. They will be issued new voter cards (PVCs).


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