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8 Million PVCs Yet To Be Collected– INEC

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The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has said that eight million Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) are yet to be collected by Nigerians.

This is even as he identified non-prosecution of electoral offenders as one of the factors hindering smooth conduct of elections in the country.

He also frowned at the non-existence of strong laws to deter  electoral offenders, saying the absence of such a provision or law has allowed for an abiding culture of electoral malpractices responsible for some of the many hitches the commission has been dealing with.

Yakubu, who spoke with newsmen in Lagos at the weekend, said that only a small fraction of election offenders have been successfully prosecuted in the country.

‘One of the challenges facing us as a commission is the problem we face in prosecuting election offenders.

‘While the police can prosecute those involved in Ballot Box snatching and the likes, what have we done to the real politicians behind such practice?

‘Don’t forget again that some of our staff can also collaborate with politicians to try and upturn the wish of the people but we shall continue to plead with the relevant government agencies to strengthen our laws pertaining to the prosecution of  electoral  offenders.

He said the prosecution of electoral offenders was crucial to successful elections but noted that INEC neither has its own police nor the capacity to investigate infractions during elections.

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Oshiomhole Accuses PDP Of Buying PVCs

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Governor Adams Oshiomhole has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of buying PVCs from voters in different parts of the state with a view to rigging the September 10 Governorship election in the state.

Speaking at a rally of the All Progressives Congress in Jattu, Etsako West Local Government Area of the state, Monday, Oshiomhole said anyone caught in the illegality will be prosecuted and jailed if found guilty.

According to him, “They are going round, collecting PVCs and dropping lies, please don’t sell your PVCs. Poverty cannot be cured with a dash, it has to be fought on a systematic basis.

“In Agenebode, they are buying PVCs, they will say bring it, we will give you N5,000. Ask them, if they sweat to make the money, will they use it to buy PVC? “Don’t allow them, after impoverishing you, they take N5,000 and stop you from voting. I’ve told the security agencies to monitor, when we catch them they will be prosecuted and jailed, but please, N5,000 will not bail anyone out of poverty.”

The Governor said “when we say the PDP, you actually buried it, we only announced it, and they will remain politically dead. They died in sin, they undermined the people, looted the treasury, failed all the questions and they breached all 10 commandments of development, so they died in sin and shall never resurrect in our lifetime.

“I hear them say Change the change, the dead cannot change the living because they are dead politically, they cannot change us who are politically living. So it’s a futile slogan. He said the PDP ruined the nation’s economy in 16 years.

According to him “On May 29, 1999, when the PDP took over the reins of the Federal Government, the official rate of naira was N21.90 to $1, by the time they were chased out of power, the naira was already exchanging for close to N200.”

We have written our own development testimonial in our own ink and they have written the testimonial of their failure in their own ink.”

Candidate of the APC, Mr Godwin Obaseki said the Edo progress cannot be put on the reverse by the PDP, adding “we will continue with what Oshiomhole has started; he has built roads, schools, hospitals, so we will continue with the next phase with human capital development.”

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Scam Alert!!! Fake Policemen Seize PVCs From Owners

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Individuals posing as police men now seize Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) from people ostensibly with the intention to disenfranchise them. The people mostly at the receiving end are commercial motorcyclists aka okada riders, mostly of northern extraction in Lagos State.

The ploy employed by these fake policemen is to pose as security operatives enforcing the ban on okada on some major streets in the state.

The fake policemen after collecting motorcycles from their riders by force, would then ask the riders to bail themselves by submitting their PVCs. The fake plain clothes policemen would thereafter released the motorcycles without returning the PVCs.

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Police Recover Over 7,000 Stolen PVCs

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The Police in Delta on Thursday said it had recovered 7,565 stolen Permanent Voter Cards in the state. This was disclosed in a statement by the spokesperson of the state’s Police Command, Celestina Kalu, in Warri.

Ms. Kalu said the PVCs were stolen from the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area of the state.

The police spokesperson said Shakira Adewale, an INEC employee in Oghara, reported a case of stolen PVCs at the Oghara Police Station on February 10 and named the night guards as suspects.

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BUSTED!!! 500 PVCs Found in PDP Chieftain’s Residence

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Supporters of PDP and those of the APC, clashed  in Benin, Edo State reports. The clash follows the discovery of 500 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) at the residence of a chieftain of the PDP in the state.

The PDP chieftain upon interrogation confessed that the PVCs belonged to a House of Representatives candidate from Edo Central. The encounter was said to have degenerated into a pandemonium as the APC supporters present demanded that the PDP chieftain must be handover over to the police for proper investigation. PDP members, however, insisted that he should be left off the hook.

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Ban Ki-moon Asks INEC to Embark on Rapid PVCs Distribution

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The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, has asked INEC to take advantage of the shift in polls to embark on rapid distribution of the remaining Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to all registered voters.

This is contained in a statement from the Secretary-General on Sunday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on the postponement of Nigeria’s elections, initially scheduled for February 14 and 28. The statement was made available to the media by Oluseyi Soremekun, National Information Officer, UN Information Centre in Nigeria.

He urged, “the electoral authority to take all necessary measures, such as the rapid distribution of the remaining PVCs, to enable all eligible voters, including those displaced, to exercise their right to vote in a timely manner.  This is imperative for ensuring a credible, free and transparent election,” the statement said.

The statement also said that the UN scribe had spoken in a telephone conversation with President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday over the postponement of the election, and also to Gen Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).

He had encouraged both Jonathan and opposition candidate Buhari to respect the Abuja Accord they adopted and which commits them to non-violence, peace and tolerance during the elections. “He looks up to Nigeria’s authorities to uphold their commitment to ensure a violence-free election and put in place adequate security measures, so that citizens across the country are able to exercise their civic duty safely and without fear,” the statement added.

The secretary-general expressed the hope that the forthcoming elections would meet the high expectations of the Nigerian people and the international community. “The successful conduct of these polls would strengthen Nigeria’s democracy and enable the country to continue to play a leading role in the promotion of regional peace and security,” Ban said.

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PDP Accuses INEC , APC of Hoarding PVCs

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PDP has alleged that officials of INEC are conniving with members of the APC to deny non-indigenes in APC-controlled states of their PVCs.

Olisa Metuh, PDP’s National Publicity Secretary in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, said the party has more facts suggesting that the INEC officials and the APC were working together to shut out the non-indigenes because of their perceived political affiliation.

He noted that the aim is to deny the PDP of its well-deserved victory in APC states since these non-indigenes are supporters of the PDP. He described the development as a crime against the electoral process.

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14,000 PVCs Snatched By Hoodlums in Rivers, Says INEC

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INEC has said hoodlums forcibly snatched about 14,000 Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVCs) from officials of the commission during the collection exercise in Rivers State.

The state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mrs. Gesila Khan, made the disclosure while speaking to journalists in Port Harcourt on Friday. She said some of the cards were stolen from local government collection centres where the PVCs were deposited at the close of the collection exercise to enable the rightful owners pick them up at their own time before the elections.

Khan also said over 50,000 PVCs would be distributed to their owners before the general election, adding that more than 80 per cent of the registered voters in the state have collected their PVCs. She stated that her office received 2,990,056 PVCs and distributed 1,869,379.

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Fayose Allegedly Buys PVCs From Defected Party Members

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Governor Ayodele Fayose has been alleged to be buying PVC’s belonging to members of the All Progressive Party in Ekiti State and have now defected to the People’s Democratic Party.

The governor is alleged to be targeting people who are desperate for money such students of higher institutions and artisans, whereby they sell their voter cards in exchange for money.

He has been visiting numerous colleges where he deceives the younger population into buying their voter cards for money and the act has been described as uncalled for by the APC.

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APC, NBA Call for 3-Days Holiday for PVC Collection

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) have called on the federal government to declare a three-day public holiday to give working Nigerians the opportunity to collect their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs).

They also urged the government to work in tandem with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure that the PVCs are distributed at the polling units.

Lai Mohammed, APC’s National Publicity Secretary,noted that if these are taken by the government, the issue of distribution and collection of PVS would be solved within five days.

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