INEC urged to supply more machines, personnel to meet voters’ rush for PVCs

Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to end the long queues of residents besieging registration centres for Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC) by providing more registration machines and personnel.
 
Addressing members of a political group, The Mandate Movement, at a special meeting to pray and prepare members for the Sallah festival at his residence in Ejigbo, Bamigbetan said the hundreds of enthusiastic citizens mobilized by the group to register are discouraged by the hardship encountered at the centres.
 
He said the hardship was unnecessary and avoidable as more machines and personnel could be deployed to meet the surge that the advocacy for registration has created.
 

In his speech, the chairman, Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, Monsuru Bello Obe, commended the state and the local government for the successful completion of Ona Iwa Mimo street, where the meeting took place adding that many road projects are still on the board.
 
No fewer than 100 bags of rice, 2,000 bags of garri and ten cows were mobilized for the needs of the people at the event.
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