The Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) of Nigerians who took part in the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) operation from January 15 to July 31, 2022, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), have not yet been printed.
Festus Okoye, the national commissioner of INEC, announced this on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Wednesday, October 26, 2022. He stated, “If you are a registered voter, or if you are one of the 84 million Nigerians who have previously registered, you may track your data in our database.
According to him, INEC is under pressure to hold free and fair elections in 2023, and it will be challenging for any politician to compromise the integrity of the electoral process in the election that year.
Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of INEC, can only be removed legally if he violates the laws governing his job, according to Okoye, who also denied rumours that Yakubu would soon be fired.
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Yakubu stated earlier on Wednesday that 76.5 percent of newly registered voters are young people and that 40% of newly registered voters are students during the Third Quarterly Meeting with Political Parties for the year 2022 in Abuja.
Okoye stated: “If you are a registered voter, in other words if you belong to the class of 84 million Nigerians that have already registered, you can track your data in our database.
“Secondly, if you were one of those that registered with the Commission during the Continuous Voter Registration exercise between 28th day of June 2021 and 14th day of January 2022, you can track where your Permanent Voter Card is and you will still be in a position to collect it.
“But if you register between the 15th day of January 2022 and the 31st day of July 2022, the implication is that you are not yet a registered voter in the true sense of the word because we have just finished the cleaning up of the voters’ register which is still ongoing.
“So, it is not possible for you to know where your permanent voters card is because we are yet to print your permanent voter cards and we are yet to make these permanent voter cards available for the registrants.”
