With the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) resuming permanent voter card (PVC) distribution nationwide, hundreds of would-be voters thronged to its office in AMAC, Area 10, Abuja on Wednesday.
Channels Television reports that due to the turnout, INEC workers attended to those seeking to collect their PVCs in groups of 10.
INEC, on December 2, announced new dates for the collection of PVCs in all the 774 local government offices of the Commission nationwide, fixing Monday, 12 December, 2022 to Sunday, 22 January, 2023 as the dates for the collection of PVCs.
The Commission, in August, disclosed that over eight million young Nigerians had completed the recently concluded Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise.
The youth demography has been touted as a major deciding factor in the upcoming elections and INEC’s figures, some have argued, appear to back the theory.
According to INEC, there were 10,487,972 fresh registrants, while 12,298,944 persons completed their registrations. Of these, 8,784,677 were composed of young people, the commission said.
Photos by Channels Television’s Sodiq Adelakun
