Governor Emmanuel
Uduaghan of Delta State has declared March 6 work-free day to enable civil
servants in the state to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) before the
March 8 deadline. Uduaghan made the declaration on Wednesday at during the
State Executive Council meeting in Asaba. The pronouncement came after the INEC
Resident Electoral Commissioner, Elder Aniede Ikiowak, led other staff members
to demonstrate the use of the commission’s card reader at the meeting.
The governor also called
on INEC to extend the demonstration of the card readers across the state,
especially the hard to reach areas to erase their doubts about the process.
According to the governor, a lot of people have doubts about the PVCs and the
use of the card readers. “I know there are a lot of people who are very
apprehensive and what our people are saying is that you demonstrate the use of
the card readers,” he said. The governor said that based on INEC report, about
405,000 PVC’s were yet to be distributed out of about 2.2 million printed for
the State.
“And we have till Sunday
to collect these cards. So, I have decided to make Friday work-free to enable
the people to collect their PVC’s before Sunday,” he said. Speaking earlier,
the REC explained that the use of card reader was arrived at in order for INEC
to address the challenges and hitches of the 2011 elections. He said the card
reader was an innovation that would enable INEC to address issues of late
arrival of materials to polling units and that of accreditation.
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