The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expanded the due date for the accumulation of lasting voters cards (PVC) by three days.
The gathering of PVC which was booked to finish on Friday, February 8. The organization has now stretched out it to Monday, February 11.
The director of INEC, Mahmoud Yakubu, said the choice was because of grievances gotten by the office.
He talked at the opening of a gathering with Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC) in Abuja on Friday.
Mr Yakubu said the expansion of the due date is to guarantee no qualified Nigerian is disfranchised due to their powerlessness to gather their PVCs.
He said authorities will take a shot at Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m to 6 p.m. amid the activity.
There have been grumblings by Nigerians over the challenges they experienced in endeavoring to gather their PVCs.
INEC in numerous states as late as this week griped that a huge number of PVCs were as yet to be gathered.
To guarantee more individuals gather the cards, INEC in numerous nearby government regions has decentralized the accumulation focuses.
An enrolled voter can’t cast a ballot without the PVCs, which must be created at the surveying focus.
The restriction Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday grumbled that numerous Nigerians were yet to gather the PVCs and encouraged INEC to broaden the due date for the accumulation of the cards.
With the new course of action, voters will most likely gather the cards four days before the general decision starts on February 16 crosswise over Nigeria with the presidential and National Assembly surveys.
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, revealed this Friday in Abuja at a gathering with the states Resident Electoral Commissioners RECs to audit the dimension of the commission’s readiness for next Saturday’s surveys. Yakubu said the commission touched base at the choice to expand the due date following interests by Nigerians for an audit of the gathering procedure. He said; “Over the most recent few days, we have been immersed by calls from Nigerians to audit the present procedure of gathering of Permanent Voters’ Cards.
Accordingly, the Commission has taken the accompanying choices: “The accumulation of PVCs booked to end today Friday eighth February 2019 is thusly stretched out across the nation to Monday eleventh February 2019. This will incorporate Saturday and Sunday.
The gathering of PVCs will presently occur from 9am to 6pm day by day. “All State workplaces are thus coordinated to survey the technique for the accumulation of PVCs and devote all the staff of the Local Government workplaces to the gathering procedure. Staff is charged to be considerate in taking care of nationals and to raise issues that they can’t promptly set out to their bosses.”
He said the gathering with the RECs would “embrace a thorough survey of our arrangements. Generally speaking, the Commission is prepared for the decisions. All things considered, we are ever prepared to adjust procedures and techniques so as to serve Nigerians better.
“The Commission wishes to promise Nigerians that we will keep on making each vital move to guarantee that no enrolled voter is disappointed because of non-gathering of PVCs. So also, the Commission is finding a way to address objections of inaccessibility of the PVCs of some enrolled voters previously the end the due date for the accumulation.
“We wish to emphasize that after the due date of Monday eleventh February 2019, every uncollected Pvc will be reviewed and kept with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for safety’s sake until after the General Elections when the gathering of cards and the consistent enrollment of voters will continue”, he pronounced.
