39,000 PVCs Ready For Distribution In Niger

Niger State has 11, 000 pending cases of permanent voter cards (PVCs) transfer and 39,000 PVCs ready for distribution.

The outgoing resident electoral commissioner (REC) in charge of the state, Prof Sam Egwu , said the commission  has approved a window for those with pending cases  during the voters registration exercise  to conclude their  registration.

Egwu made the disclosure when he handed over to Alhaji Yakubu Duku, the administrative secretary   in a brief ceremony in Minna, Niger State capital.

He said, “While physical appearance of new registrants or transfers have been stopped, there are pending approvals for people already on the processes awaiting different levels of approvals. Plans are on by the commission on how to reach out to the owners in their respective local government areas.”

The outgoing REC said the commission has registered over 385,854 people during the concluded  voters registration exercise, and  created about 4,950 polling units across the 25 Local government areas of the state.

“INEC has created additional polling units in addition to the already existing poling units across the state, basically to ensure every polling units do not have less than 50 voters during elections, and to make sure there are no zero polling units,” he declared.

He however said that one of the major challenges ahead of the commission in Niger State before the general election is to educate people on the locations of new polling units before and during elections.

Egwu commended political parties in the state on the just -concluded primary elections, pointing out that 19 disputes have been reported by aggrieved contestants, of which four of the cases have been withdrawn, while 15 are awaiting trials.