Delta State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Rev. Monday Udoh Tom has disclosed that over 300, 000 Personal Voters Card ( PVC) of registered voter’s in the state were yet to be collected.
Rev. Tom disclosed this, during the inauguration of Executive of Delta State INEC Press Corp ( IPC) at the Commission’s Secretariat in Asaba, the state capital.
He said in ensuring that owners of the PVC’s get their cards, the Commission would embark on an aggressive mobilization of PVC collection and voting, so as to sensitize Deltans on the need to take ownership of their cards.
While analysing the PVCs left in the various INEC offices across the state, the REC said there were over 244,715 uncollected PVCs from the 2019 general elections, adding that the Commission had also in the past received about 69,946 PVCs, for those who registered between June –December 2021 and 17,000 transfer PVCs.
According to Rev. Tom, by the end of November, the Commission would receive more PVCs of those who registered between January to July 2022, leading to an increase in the number of PVCs in their possession.
He urged the newly inaugurated members of IPC to partner with the Commission in ensuring that registrants obtain their PVCs, which is still on-going at the respective LGA offices of INEC and also engage the political parties , whom he described as beneficiaries of the PVCs to be actively involved in encouraging and mobilizing their supporters to collect their PVCs.
Earlier, the Head of Voters Education and Publicity Department, Mr Bukola Ojeme said the event was first of it’s kind in the state and that the IPC would form a very important body in value chain of information management as far as electoral process is concerned.
In his remark, the Chairman of the newly inaugurated body, Chief Festus Ahon assured INEC that they would diligently discharge their duties.
Highlight of the event was the swearing in of the executive members headed by Chief Ahon, the Secretary, Oghenero Eghweree; the Public Relations Officer, Mr Austin Oyibode and Treasurer, Mrs lfeoma Okafor.
