The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday said Edo State recorded the highest in Permanent Voters’ Cards collection since the introduction of Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) for off-cycle elections.

INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Sam Olumekun, said this in a statement.

The commission said in five days, 125,928 of the 184,438 newly printed Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) have been collected ahead of the Sept. 21 governorship election in the state.

He said that the PVC collection represents 68.3 percent of the 184,438 new cards issued during the recent Continuous Voter Registration exercise.

“This marks the highest collection rate recorded by INEC since the introduction of CVR for off-cycle governorship elections in 2015,” he said.

“The collection, which took place across all 192 wards in Edo State between Aug. 22 and Aug. 26 was achieved through a carefully coordinated effort by INEC.

“The commission is pleased to announce the conclusion of the collection at Ward level. Learning from the lessons of the previous collection 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 same to our website.

Olumekun said a detailed breakdown of the collection by LGAs had been uploaded to the INEC website and social media platforms for public information.