Yesterday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said that Edo State has been rated highest in Permanent Voter Cards collection since the introduction of Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) for off-cycle elections.
 
This was contained in a statement by INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun.  The commission noted that in five days, 125,928 of the 184,438 newly printed PVCs have been collected ahead of the September 21 governorship election in the state. He said the PVC collection represents 68.3 per cent of the 184,438 new cards issued during the recent CVR exercise. Olumekun said: “This marks the highest collection rate recorded by INEC since the introduction of CVR for off-cycle governorship elections in 2015.
 
“The collection across the 192 wards in the state between August 22 and 26 was achieved through a carefully coordinated effort by INEC.
 
“The commission is pleased to announce the conclusion of the collection at the ward level. Learning from the previous collection of PVCs, the commission has carefully packaged all the PVCs by polling units, wards, and local councils.
 
“We also produced the collection register, providing details of voters whose cards were ready for collection, and uploaded it to our website.”
 
Olumekun added that a breakdown of the collection according to local councils had been uploaded to the INEC website and social media platforms for public information.