PVCs: FCTA partners INEC on voter education

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has assured the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of the Administration’s readiness to partner with it to sensitise residents to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).
The Minister disclosed this when the newly appointed FCT Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Alhaji Yahaya Bello, paid him a courtesy visit. Represented by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Mr. Chinyeaka Ohaa, revealed that the Administration “is willing to collaborate with the Commission to sensitise the populace on the ongoing continuous voter registration exercise.”
“We are going to work with all the stakeholders: the area councils, traditional rulers as well as faithbased and community organisations to ensure that people take advantage of the ongoing exercise to register, in order to be able to vote in the forthcoming elections.
“The FCT Administration is committed to ensuring that there is effective voter education to check apathy as well as adequate security for the purpose of delivering free, fair and peaceful elections when the time comes,” he said. Speaking earlier, the new Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Alhaji Yahaya Bello, said he came to signify his arrival to assume office.
According to him, new persons, especially those who have just attained the voting age of 18, as well as people coming for transfers, have been coming forward to register. Bello, however, lamented that the Commission “still has many uncollected PVCs (a backlog of over 246,000 arising from the 2011, 2014 and 2016 exercises)” and called on the residents to “come forward to collect these cards.” The REC, while commending the FCT Administration for their past support, appealed for greater collaboration “in the coming years, especially towards mobilising the citizenry to use the opportunity of the ongoing continuous voter registration exercise to register for the elections.”

 

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