{"id":136982,"date":"2022-01-19T19:29:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T18:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=136982"},"modified":"2022-01-19T19:29:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T18:29:42","slug":"pvcs-have-not-expired-inec-counters-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/19\/pvcs-have-not-expired-inec-counters-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;PVCs have not expired&#8217; &#8211; INEC counters Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has opposed a statement credited to a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu that Permanent Voters\u2019 Cards have expired.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Tinubu had made the claim while addressing women leaders of the APC who paid him a visit in Abuja, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The former governor of Lagos State also decried that there had been a decline in the number of eligible voters in recent times.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Chief Technical Adviser to the Chairman of INEC, Prof Bolade Eyinla, stated that PVCs previously registered remain valid.<\/p>\n<p>Eyinla also advised\u00a0those who already have PVCs not to bother about registering for another one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis information is not correct. The PVC issued to all previously registered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/11\/06\/nnewi-voters-stop-commencement-of-voting-over-unavailability-of-original-result-sheet\/\">voters<\/a> remains valid. This kind of statement will certainly push eligible voters to register more than once thereby creating the problem of double and multiple registrations,\u201d he said as quoted by\u00a0<em>Daily Trust<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Buttressing Eyinla\u2019s point, Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Lawrence Oyekanmi, pointed out that registering for PVC more than once is an offence under the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, double registration is an offence under our laws. Eligible Nigerians are entitled to register only once. 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