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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ogun state has declared that it has discovered 555 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) belonging to dead people in the state.
The Commission stated that the PVCs had been set aside, noting that investigation was still ongoing with a view to knowing the actual figure of the people who had registered during the exercise, but are now deceased.
The figure of deceased persons was disclosed on Monday by the Ogun Resident Electoral Commission (REC) Chief Timothy Ibitoye during a press conference held at the Commission’s headquarters in Magbon area, along IBB Boulevard, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta.
Speaking on how the Commission discovered the number of PVCs belonging to deceased persons, Ibitoye explained that, it was discovered shortly after it had displayed the names of those that were yet to collect their PVCs.
According to him, “we are trying to make sure we have correct PVCs distribution. We have gone to all the local government from polling unit to polling unit to write out the names of those who have not collected their cards and during our investigation, they gave us the figure of those who are dead in all the local government areas of the state.
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Source:: 555 PVC’s Belong to Dead People in Ogun, says INEC
