With less than a week to the start of the 2019 General Elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said a total of 1,123,537 Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) have been collected in the
Speaking at a meeting for women groups and gender-focussed civil society organisations on Saturday, the Ogun State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Olayinka Raji, who was represented by Adenike Tadese, Head Voter Education and Publicity, said 712,000 prospective voters were yet to collect their PVCs.
Tadese also added that, over 20,000 people have been recruited as ad-hoc staff, with 10,000 security officials required at three personnel per polling unit for the 3,210 polling units with 2,500 buses required to lift about 30,000 personnel to various election centres across the state.
She said: “The commission, therefore, seeks the cooperation of all stakeholders to enlighten and mobilise the citizenry to come out and vote, to be calm and eschew violence in order to maintain peace, before, during and after the election,”
