Tag: PVC
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Uncollected PVCs below 20% in Bayelsa, says INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Bayelsa, has said that the uncollected Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in the state was below 20 per cent. The new Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Mr Monday Udoh, made this disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Yenagoa on Tuesday. Udoh explained…
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Why I don’t have a PVC- Seun
As the general elections draws closer, Afro-beat musician, Seun Kuti has disclosed why he doesn’t have permanent voters card. The Grammy nominee noted that he won’t be participating in the 2019 elections because he doesn’t believe in any of the candidates. Kuti made this known as a guest on the popular breakfast TV show ‘Your…
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2019: Engage With Stakeholders to Neutralise PVC Buyers, Saraki Tells INEC
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has advised the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to immediately call a meeting of stakeholders in the next month’s general elections with the sole aim of formulating plans and ideas on how to render useless the intention of politicians who he claimed are…
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2019: All PVCs ready for collection – INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it has printed Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) for all new registered voters between 2017 and 2018 and they are ready for collection. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, disclosed this on Friday in Abuja after the swearing-in of the new Secretary to the Commission, Mrs Rose Oriaran-Anthony. Yakubu also…
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Katsina bye-election: Speaker barred from voting because of PVC
The Speaker of Katsina State House of Assembly, Abubakar Kusada, could not vote during Saturday bye-election for the Ingawa/Kusada/Kankia Federal House of Representatives due to his lack of a Permanent Voters Card. Kusada, who was the All Progressives Congress candidate in the election, nonetheless, won the election in his polling unit. The Speaker had arrived…
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Male surpasses female in new INEC CVR report
In preparations to the 2019 General Elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday released data of its continuous voters registration (CVR) exercise. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports a gender analysis of the data shows that 7,386,583 females and 6,247,831 males have been registered so far, resulting in a total of 13,634,414 new registrants. According to…
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Daura: PDP charges Buhari, APC to speak out on alleged N21b loot
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, challenged President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to speak out on the N21 billion, guns and thousands of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) allegedly found in the residence of the sacked Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura. The PDP in a statement…
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2019 Election: Korede Bello tasks youths to obtain PVCs
Korede Bello, the Nigeria Award winning Music Artiste, has called on Nigerian youths to obtain Permanent voters cards (PVC) ahead of 2019 general election. He made the call at a sensitisation campaign by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) tagged ‘Youth Votes Count’ Campus Outreach at Bayero University Kano, on Tuesday. The programme was organised within…
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Fayemi expresses optimism as card reader rejects wife’s PVC
The candidate of the APC in the ongoing governorship election in Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, says his wife’s vote is important to him. Speaking when the card reader failed to recognise his wife’s PVC, after he himself had voted at Unit 9 Ward 11 in Isan Ekiti, the governorship candidate said his wife’s vote…
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Ekiti poll: Stay away from polling units if you don’t have PVC – INEC tells residents
The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ekiti State, Prof. Abdulganiy Raji, has warned those who have no Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to stay away from polling units during the conduct of the state governorship election on Saturday. According to him, Independent National Electoral Commission gave enough time for registered voters to collect their PVCs and lodge…