19 December 2022
Two months and eight days to 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says politicians buying Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) to manipulate the elections are engaging in futile efforts.
INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye said the Bimodal Voter Registration System (BVAS) will reject biometric data of persons who are not original owners of the traded PVCs.
He described the plan by some desperate politicians who are already harvesting PVCs to rig the next election as an impossibility.
It would be recalled that a non-governmental organisation, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, had alleged that politicians are buying PVCs from poor voters to manipulate the next elections.
