INEC Testruns Mock Accreditation of Voters for Edo Guber Poll

By ‘Sola Akingboye, 27 August 2024

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has released the Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) from the recent Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in Edo State for collection as earlier announced, first at two levels across all the 192 Wards from Thursday 22nd to Monday 26th August 2024, and secondly, in INEC’s 18 LGA offices.

The Commission said it is pleased to announce the conclusion of the collection at Ward level. Learning from the lessons of previous collections of PVCs, “the Commission has carefully packaged all the PVCs by Poling Units, Wards and LGAs. “We also produced the collection register, providing details of the voters whose cards were ready for collection and uploaded the same to our website.

“In addition, we contacted them using the addresses provided at the time of registration.

“As a result, out of the 184,438 new PVCs available, 125,928 cards were collected by voters representing 68.3% of the total. This is the highest percentage of PVCs collected in five days since the Commission introduced the CVR ahead of off-cycle governorship elections in 2015.

“A detailed breakdown of the collection by LGAs has been uploaded to our website and social media platforms for public information.” The Commission revealed.

INEC added that the collection will resume in “our 18 LGA offices in Edo State from tomorrow, Wednesday, 28th August 2024, and end on Sunday, 8th September 2024.

“We appeal to the remaining voters to pick up their PVCs in person from our LGA offices. The Commission reiterates its policy that no cards will be collected by proxy.

“Detailed information on the locations of our LGA offices is already available on our website.” The statement reads.

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