With less than 70 days to the 2023 General Elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission has urged Nigerians of voting age who have registered with the Commission to collect their Permanent Voter Cards.
The Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mutiu Agboke was addressing journalists during a road show and sensitization rally organized by the Commission in collaboration with a Nongovernmental organization ahead of the general Elections.
The total number of registered voters in Osun is put at 1, 955,657.
Out of this, 1, 548, 492 people have collected their PVCs while 407,165 are yet to collect theirs.
This sensitization rally is to educate and encourage eligible voters in the state to get their permanent Voter cards ahead of the elections.
Led by the State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mutiu Agboke, officials of the commission and members of the partnering NGO moved round major streets in Osogbo before the rally was terminated at Oja-Oba.
Here, market men and women were sensitized on the need to obtain their PVCs.
While warning against vote buying, the Resident Electoral Commissioner promised that INEC will conduct a generally acceptable election.
One of the local Government offices of the Commission was recently attacked in Ede, Doctor Mutiu Agboke says security has been beefed up around it’s facilities.
He said the deployment of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System BVAS and the Results Viewing Portal for voter accreditation and uploading of PU results in real-time have come to stay.
The resident Electoral Commissioner who was until recently the Resident Electoral Commissioner for Oyo State has been going round and meeting with Stakeholders with a view to ensuring that Nigerians get to pick up their Permanent Voter Cards.
He has meet with Religious Leaders in Churches and Mosques to drum it into religious faithful on the importance of participation in the process of electing Leaders in the State.
