The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Kano Office, said there were about 500, 000 Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) yet to be collected across the 44 local government areas of the state.
The INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, Prof. Riskua Shehu, told newsmen in Kano that over 380,000 old PVCs were not collected while those that registered before the end of 2021 have close to 80,000 PVCs uncollected.
Shehu said the commission received about 14,000 voters’ cards from people who had applied for transfer to another location or updated their information.
He said: “Currently, there are over 380,000 uncollected old PVCs. There are also 77,117 new PVCs of those who registered in the 1st and 2nd quarters (June to December 2021) of the CVR and distribution had since commenced.
“Similarly, we received 13,932 cards of all those who updated their information or requested for transfer.”
Shehu regretted that as of January 2022, about 40 per cent of those who registered in Kano were discovered to have registered before in Kano or elsewhere.
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“This scenario is in all states of the federation. In fact, there were states that recorded over 50 per cent illegal registration. Double registration is an offence as clearly enshrine in the Electoral Act 2022,” he stated.
He added that INEC has created an additional registration centre in Kano for the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise in Kano.
Shehu said the creation of the additional centre was due to the upsurge in demand for registration from residents.
The INEC official stated: “The commission has decided to create additional registration centre at the Sani Abacha Indoor Stadium located at Kofar Mata, Kano.
“The choice of this location was based on the fact that it has more space with large sitting capacity and will be more convenient for registrants.
“The centre will be operating from Tuesdays to Thursdays from 9.00am to 3.00pm henceforth until the upsurge is drastically reduced,” Shehu said.
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