{"id":197935,"date":"2022-06-21T22:37:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T21:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=197935"},"modified":"2022-06-21T22:37:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T21:37:47","slug":"voter-registration-nigerians-to-receive-pvcs-january-2023-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/06\/21\/voter-registration-nigerians-to-receive-pvcs-january-2023-inec\/","title":{"rendered":"Voter registration: Nigerians to receive PVCs January 2023 \u2013 INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday announced that the Permanent Voter Cards of eligible voters who are just completing their registration may not be ready until January 2023.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed by the Resident Electoral Commissioner of Federal Capital Territory, Yahaya Bello, at a briefing in Abuja ahead of the Youth Vote Count Mega Music Concert on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Youth Vote Count Mega Music Concert is a joint event put together by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/06\/21\/2023-election-court-verdict-may-disenfranchise-50-of-registered-voters-says-inec\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">INEC<\/a> in collaboration with Yiaga Africa and the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Bello, who sounded a note of warning at the event on Tuesday, said \u201canybody just registering cannot immediately collect them until after the end of the whole exercise\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to make it clear that the PVCs you see people collecting now are from 2011, 2019 and last year. Those who are participating now till June 30 won\u2019t be able to collect theirs now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a process that will allow us to print these cards. The collection of the PVCs will not commence until the first month of 2023 and it will be done in person, not by proxies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me also appeal to Nigerians to be civil in the course of this laudable initiative. If we fail to behave ourselves in an orderly fashion, it will only give room for people who want to cause commotion to steal our phones and wallets,\u201d he appealed.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if INEC will extend the deadline for registration, Bello declined to comment, saying he was just a REC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Prof Festus Okoye, would have been in a better position to answer that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the proposed extension, Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekamni, said that it was not impossible because the INEC has a \u201cvery good history of complying with the court order\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to do that but remember that once a matter is in court, it is sub judice to talk about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had issued an order stopping INEC from ending the ongoing voters\u2019 registration.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon, in the court\u2019s ruling, granted an order of interim injunction following the hearing of an argument on motion ex-parte by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project.<\/p>\n<p>The electoral body had stated that the voters\u2019 registration exercise would end on Thursday, June 30, to allow the commission to clean up its database ahead of the general election in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday announced that the Permanent Voter Cards of eligible voters who are just completing their registration may not be ready until January 2023. 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