The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Oyo State on Saturday held a sensitisation campaign  to create awareness on the need to collect the Permanent Voter Card (PVC).

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that INEC  officials in collaboration with volunteers in Ballykleff Entertainment and Bikers Association of Nigeria moved round major streets of Ibadan, urging residents  to collect their PVCs.

The  Resident Electoral Commissioner in Oyo State, Mr Mutiu Agboke, said on the sidelines of the exercise that  the number of uncollected PVCs  in the state was 759,780.

He, however, expressed optimism that the number of PVCs would reduce  at the end of the sensitisation campaign.

Agboke said that the campaign would go a long way in raising  awareness  among  Nigerians  on the need to collect their PVCs.

He commended Ballykleff  Entertainment and Bikers Association of Nigeria for partnering  with INEC on the campaign

Agboke  called on other voluntary  organisations to partner with  INEC in sensitising Nigerians  on the need to collect their PVCs.

In his remarks, the Coordinator of Ballykleff Entertainment, Akorede Balogun, said the only tool Nigerians  need to elect their leaders in the forthcoming elections  was  their PVC.

Balogun  added that his group would  collaborate with INEC in all the 36 states and the FCT to ensure that people collected  their PVCs.

Also speaking, Mr Segun Solanke, the President of Bikers Association of Nigeria, called on Nigerians to collect their PVCs  in order to participate in the 2019 general elections.

NAN reports that the campaign train visited  Oja’oba, Beere, Molete, Challenge and Mokola among other areas in  Ibadan metropolis.  (NAN)

– Jun. 23, 2018 @ 15:49 GMT |