The Resident Electoral Commission (REC) in Kwara State, Attahiru Madami has decried the poor response of the people of the state to Permanent Voters’ Card (PVC) collection in the state, saying INEC is still having a lot of challenges in the state in terms of PVCs collection,
The REC said that from 2011 to 2019 it had a total number of two thirty three thousand , eight hundred and fifty six uncollected PVCs, adding that only twenty thousand , seven hundred fifty two have so far been collected as at October this year leaving over one hundred ninety three thousand uncollected.
Madami said this at a stakeholders meeting in Ilorin ahead of the 2023 elections.
According to Madami , of the forty six thousand, six hundred and two new PVCs received from the INEC headquarters in the state, only eighteen thousand , eight hundred eighty five had been collected.
He added that the state had forty three thousand and eight invalid registration figures, one of the least, in the country.
Madami said that the state currently has one point six eight million registration figures as opposed to one point four zero in 2019.
In his speech, the state Police Commissioner, Paul Odama warned politicians not to “feed” their supporters with hard drugs.
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