The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ebonyi says over 215, 000 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) are yet to be claimed in the state.
Prof. Godswill Obioma, INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Ebonyi said this at a news conference in Abakaliki on Friday.
“The figure is composite addition to the uncollected PVCs from the 2015, 2017 as well as first and second quarters of 2018 registrations in the state,’’ he said.
He also said that the commission, on December, received additional 97,228 non fresh PVCs representing those PVCs from transfers, mutilations and losses.
Obioma said that out of the 47, 117 uncollected PVCs from the 2015 registration, 15, 204 PVCs had been claimed by their owners, leaving the commission with 31,913 unclaimed PVCs as at Dec. 13.
He also said that out of over 77,397 PVCs from 2017 registrations, about 29,973PVCs were yet to be claimed while 47,424 PVCs had been collected.
The REC also said that 153,125 PVCs were yet to be…
