He said INEC’s insistence on the use of PVC would disenfranchise many registered voters, stressing that the process for collecting the PVC was too tedious, which he said made it impossible for many registered voters to collect theirs before the February 11 deadline. Even though INEC is yet to release the number of uncollected PVCs after the deadline, the commission had on January 5, 2019, disclosed that about eight million PVCs were yet to be collected. INEC claims to have 84 million registered voters, but do we actually have 84 million eligible voters that can vote? “INEC got Nigerians to register and gave them a temporary voter card and then turns around to say that unless one has the PVC one cannot vote. “There are two solutions; INEC should either postpone the election until all PVCs have been collected or it should allow the use of TVC.

Source: Punch February 15, 2019 23:32 UTC