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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) will be used for the Ekiti State governorship election on June 21 and the Osun State governorship election on August 9 as the card readers will be used along with PVCs for the 2015 general election. In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Kayode Idowu, the commission said this was to correct reports in some sections of the media yesterday that card readers would be deployed for the Ekiti and Osun States governorship elections.
He said the media reports misrepresented acting INEC chairman, Dr. Ishmael Igbani, as saying card readers would be deployed for the governorship elections.
According to Idowu, “What the acting chairman said was that PVCs, and not Temporary Voter Cards (TVCs) that were issued in 2011 and during the recent Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in the two states, will be used for the imminent governorship elections; while card readers will be deployed in 2015. This is in line with the commission’s programme to incrementally fortify the electoral process against age-long susceptibility to abuses.
“PVCs were distributed simultaneously in Ekiti and Osun States from March 7 to March 9 preparatory to the governorship elections. CVR was also conducted in the two states from March 12 to 17.
“The use of PVCs for Ekiti and Osun States governorship elections will ensure that all duly registered persons, whose names are on the biometric register and for whom PVCs have been produced, will be able to exercise their franchise in the imminent elections.
The CVR was an opportunity for eligible persons who were previously not on the biometric register to get their data captured, and their PVCs will shortly be produced.”
INEC also called on registered voters in the two states, who are yet to collect their PVCs to go to their respective local government offices of the commission and do so because TVCs would not be used for the elections.
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