2023: Oyo residents besiege INEC offices to get PVCs [PHOTOS]

Scores of residents of Oyo State, who’re but to gather their Everlasting Voter’s Playing cards (PVCs), on Monday, besieged numerous workplaces of Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) to gather their PVCs.

They have been seen at INEC workplaces in among the native authorities areas visited by DAILY POST on Monday.

DAILY POST gathered that INEC in Oyo State lately launched the rules printed by INEC Headquarters for the gathering of Everlasting Voter Playing cards (PVCs) for people who bought registered this yr, forward of the 2023 basic elections.

Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) within the State, Dr. Adeniran Rahman Tella, famous that the Fee mounted Monday twelfth December 2022 to Sunday twenty second January 2023 because the dates for the gathering of PVCs in all of the 33 INEC Native Authorities Space workplaces within the state.

Tella acknowledged additional that INEC resolved to devolve these PVCs’ assortment to 351 Registration Areas/Wards from Friday sixth to Sunday thirteenth January 2023.

He added that every one eligible and legitimate registrants can even acquire their PVCs from 9:00am to three:00pm every day together with Saturday and Sundays.

Tella additionally knowledgeable that one other batch of the up to date, transferred reprinted PVCs for people who participated on this yr suspended Steady Voter Registration (CVR) are already accessible for assortment in any respect the 33 INEC native authorities workplaces.

Our correspondent who went spherical among the INEC workplaces in Ibadan noticed that some potential voters on Monday thronged the INEC workplaces to gather the PVCs.

A few of those that did switch additionally used the chance to gather the brand new ones.

It was additionally noticed that a few of these whose PVCs usually are not prepared have been advised to come back again.

Whereas among the potential voters have been advised to come back again on the finish of December, others have been advised to come back again in January.

A number of the INEC workplaces visited included these inside the premises of Ibadan North West native authorities space in Onireke.

Others are INEC workplaces in Ibadan North situated inside the premises of Ibadan North native authorities secretariat in Agodi gate.

2023: Oyo residents besiege INEC workplaces to get PVCs [PHOTOS]