315,000 PVCs not collected in Kwara
No fewer than 315,000 permanent voters cards (PVC) are yet to be claimed by registered voters since 2015 till date in Kwara state.
Speaking during a courtesy visit to the Correspondents’ Chapel of the state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) at the weekend, the state Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Alhaji Garba Madami, said that only 160,000 eligible voters had so far registered since commencement of the voters registration exercise in the state up till date.
The INEC commissioner, who said that 1.2 million eligible voters are expected from the state for the 2019 general elections, added that strategy had been mapped out to address poor registration of voters.
