Sunday, 6 July 2014
Osun Guber Poll: No Permanent Voters’ Cards, No Voting – Osun REC
Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Olusegun Agbaje
has revealed that 780, 464 electorate who have received their
Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) would vote in the August 9
governorship election in the state saying that only voters with
PVCs would be allowed to vote.
Agbaje who disclosed this on
Thursday, 3rd July, 2014 during a
press conference in Osogbo said the
780, 464 voters qualified for voting
because they have received their
PVCs out of the 1,256,569) electorate
who registered in the state.
The Residential Electoral
Commissioner maintained that only
voters with Permanent Voters’ Cards
will vote saying “it’s important to
stress at this juncture that only the PVCs would be used to vote
during the 9th August, 2014 Governorship election; simply put,
“No PVC, No Voting.”
He pointed out that 780,464 PVCs were distributed by the
commission in the state out of 1,256,569 PVCs received as at
27th June, 2014 stressing that the eligible voters, 780,464,
represented 62.11 percent of total PVCs received.
According to the new REC, “as we speak, 780, 464 Permanent
Voters’ Cards (PVCs) have been distributed out of 1,265,569
PVCs received in the state.
“Also, a total of 149, 885 eligible voters were registered during
the Continious Voters’ Registration (CVR) exercise between
12th and 17th March, 2014″.
He said during the Voters Registration proper, 1, 256, 569.
Agbaje who resumed office on 1st July following the
compulsory leave that former REC, Ambassador Rufus Akeju
was said to have embarked on arrangements for the distribution
of the PVCs of those who registered during CVR exercise which
would be distributed to the owners as soon as they were
received by the state office.
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