The issue concerning the distribution on Permanent Voter's Card by the Independent National Electoral Commission has become one of the hottest topics in the dailies these days. It is obvious that INEC is not meeting up to the expectation of the people, as 50% of voters are yet to collect their PVC which means they won't be able to exercise their right in the coming election. But the case seems to be different in the north as 80% of the citizens have collected their permanent voters card.
With few weeks to the Presidential election, the lopsided dodgy
policy of INEC PVC distribution, is fast becoming a source for worry.
Recall the highly controversial lopsided Polling units allocation
where over 21, 000 units were allocated in the north (even when INEC
uncovered over 10 million ghost and underage voters in the same north)
and little above 8, 000 units were given to the south. That plot has
been killed though.
It now appears INEC boss, Attahiru Jega did not relent as he is now
implementing his Plan B since Plan A failed. This Plan B is Permanent
Voters Card (PVC) collection. A lot of southern voters (Goodluck
Jonathan’s main political base) are yet to receive their PVC due to
Jega’s evil plans to rig the election in favour of APC. This
investigation has it that PVCs are in the hands of the northerners more
than southerners.
There is sharp contrast to the strict adherence to the rules of the
game between the north and south. This contrast and Jega’s evil plans
are in two ways:
1. Districts Heads in most northern states are being allowed to
collect the PVC for their owners, but this was not allowed by INEC in
any state in the south.
2. INEC told those that have not collected their PVC to proceed to
their local govt offices of INEC to collect it. In the south, the voters
returned home with tales of disappointment because the INEC officials
refused to give them, due to the instruction given to them by Jega. But
in the north, the voters were given their PVC without any problem or
delay.
Recall that, two months ago, it was discovered that some INEC
officials under the instruction of Jega were conducting house to house
registration of voters against the Electoral Act and guidelines. It took
the intervention of the head of one of the security agencies to stop
the illegality.
Even with the insurgency in the northeast and the so-called
territories taken by Boko Haram, yet they have more PVCs than those in
the south as shown below:
South East, 59.22% Collection
South South, 66.66% Collection
South West, 43.15% Collection
North Central, 69.89% Collection
North East, 81.09% Collection
North West, 80.18% Collection
The State by State breakdown is as follows (some States were omitted because their data was not available as at Press Time):
SOUTH EAST
STATE % DISTRIBUTED
ABIA 73.5
ENUGU 45.0
ANAMBRA 48.6
EBONYI 75.0
IMO 54.0
TOTAL % OF PVC DISTRIBUTED IN SOUTH EAST = 59.22
SOUTH SOUTH
AKWA IBOM 60.0
BAYELSA 79.43
CROSS RIVER 69.2
DELTA 67.0
EDO 57.7
TOTAL % OF PVC DISTRIBUTED IN SOUTH SOUTH = 66.666
SOUTH WEST
ONDO 65.4
OYO 57.67
LAGOS 49.0
OGUN 54.4
TOTAL % OF PVC DISTRIBUTED IN SOUTH WEST = 43.1535
NORTH CENTRAL
BENUE 72.0
KOGI 63.97
KWARA 64.0
PLATEAU 78.9
NASARAWA 70.6
TOTAL % OF PVC DISTRIBUTED IN NORTH CENTRAL = 69,894
NORTH EAST
GOMBE 77.0
TARABA 70.0
BAUCHI 96.97
YOBE 80.4
TOTAL % OF PVC DISTRIBUTED IN NORTH EAST = 81.0925
NORTH WEST
KEBBI 60.3
ZAMFARA 70.0
JIGAWA 94.0
SOKOTO 88.9
KANO 87.7
TOTAL % OF PVC DISTRIBUTED IN NORTH WEST = 80.18
culled from pointblank news
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